"Any attack by Iran on anything American will be met with great and overwhelming force," Trump tweeted on June 25.
"In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration," he added.
Tensions between Washington and Tehran have intensified after the United States rolled out a new round of sanctions on June 24 targeting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and some senior officials, days after the downing of a US military surveillance drone by Iran.
In response, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on June 25 that the White House has a "mental handicap" and vowed that Tehran would not be intimidated by American sanctions, according to media reports.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said in a tweet on June 25 that US decision to sanction the Iranian top officials closed the path of diplomacy between Washington and Tehran.
"Trump's administration is destroying all the established international mechanisms developed for maintaining world peace and security," Mousavi added.
Ties between the United States and Iran have deteriorated significantly after Washington walked away from the landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal in May 2018 and reimposed energy and financial sanctions, which had been removed under the deal, on Iran.
Iran has suspended parts of its commitments subject to the nuclear deal and have threatened to go further.
