US, Israel and Iran clash over Trump's 'threatening' tweet

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday praised President Donald Trump's "tough stand" against Iran after the US leader issued a stark warning to the Islamic Republic.

"I would like to praise the tough stand expressed yesterday by President Trump and Secretary of State [Mike] Pompeo against the aggression of the Iranian regime," Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet meeting.

Iranians woke up to a warning issued via Trump's Twitter account - written in capital letters - after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that the US must understand that "peace with Iran is the mother of all peace and war with Iran is the mother of all wars".

Trump fired back early Monday morning with a threat of his own.

"NEVER EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKE OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE."

The tweet was dismissed by Tehran, with Iranian semi-official news agency ISNA saying that Trump's Twitter missive plagarised an earlier threat by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who warned the West "never threaten an Iranian".

Another high-ranking Iranian paramilitary commander dismissed Trump's warning of unprecedented "consequences" for threatening the US, as nothing but "psychological warfare".

General Gholam Hossein Gheibparvar, the chief of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard's volunteer Basij force said on Monday that Trump "won't dare" take any military action against Iran, according to the ISNA news agency.

Iranian lawmaker Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh told The Associated Press that he doubted there would be a military confrontation between Iran and the US, despite the escalating rhetoric.

Falahatpisheh says that Trump and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani "express themselves through speeches since diplomatic channels are closed" as the two countries have had no diplomatic relations since 1979.

He added that unlike North Korea, "Iran never moved toward a nuclear bomb".