Mounting tensions between Washington and Tehran continued to escalate Sunday after Trump issued a direct threat that war would spell ‘the official end of Iran.’

His remarks came in the wake of a rocket attack less than a mile from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which appeared to have been carried out by Iran-backed Shiite militias, an Iraqi military spokesman said.

Taking to Twitter, at just after 4pm ET, the president posted:

‘If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran.

Never threaten the United States again!’

A rocket was fired into Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone where the US Embassy is based.

In an outburst following the rocket launch, President Donald Trump threatened Iran with destruction if it seeks a fight with the US.

He tweeted: ‘If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!’

The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge sail in formation as part of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group in the Arabian Sea on Friday.

The USS Abraham Lincoln sails in the Arabian Sea near the USS Kearsarge.

It is part of the US Fifth Fleet which was sent to the region amid an unexplained threat from Iran.

An F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft launches from the flight deck the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf as tensions mount with Tehran over President Donald Trump’s sanctions.

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