Beirut/Berlin — Iran poured scorn on threatened US sanctions on Tuesday and told European powers to step up and salvage its international nuclear deal, though Germany signalled there was only so much it could do to fend off Washington’s economic clout. Senior Iranian military and political figures queued up to issue defiant statements a day after Washington threatened "the strongest sanctions in history" if Iran failed to make a series of sweeping changes. Two weeks on from US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the nuclear pact, his administration told Iran to drop its nuclear programme and pull out of the Syrian civil war, among other demands, setting Washington and Tehran further on a course of confrontation. "The people of Iran should stand united in the face of this and they will deliver a strong punch to the mouth of the American secretary of state and anyone who backs them," said Ismail Kowsari, a senior commander with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, according to the...
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