Trump gets warning missiles from Iran, China

Two countries that top President Trump’s enemies list; China and Iran, are pushing back against his tough talk this week with showy and provocative military drills.

Iran’s defense minister, Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehqan, displayed the country’s newest weapons, including a guided missile, a grenade launcher, a rifle and a pistol.

The arms would boost the military’s capabilities in individual combat and in air defense, he said, according to the Tasnim News Agency.

Iran conducted military exercises and rolled out new weapons that its leaders said would help national defense, and following Trump’s Twitter assault on Beijing’s expansion in the South China Sea, China also tested a new missile.

Iran also warned that if attacked, its missiles would target the U.S. 5th Fleet based in Bahrain, American installations in the Indian Ocean and the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.

“These points are all within the range of Iran’s missile systems, and they will be razed to the ground if the enemy makes a mistake,” Mojtaba Zonour, a member of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission. “And only seven minutes is needed for the Iranian missile to hit Tel Aviv.”

Iran said the missile was not capable of carrying a nuclear weapon and that testing defensive weapons is its right.