Iran's warning to US

IRAN’S foreign minister issued the most direct threat yet against the United States after Tehran's bloody crackdown on protesters, warning the Islamic Republic will be “firing back with everything we have if we come under renewed attack".

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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi

The comments by Abbas Araghchi, who saw his invitation to the World Economic Forum in Davos rescinded over the killings, come as a US aircraft carrier group moves westward toward the Middle East from Asia.

US fighter jets and other equipment appear to be moving in the Middle East after a major US military deployment in the Caribbean saw troops seize Venezuela's former leader Nicolas Maduro.

Iranian state TV issued the first official death toll from recent protests, saying 3,117 people were killed.