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\n A slew of Iranian diplomats mocked US President Donald Trump on Friday after he warned the country would be bombed \u201c back to the Stone Age,\u201d pointing to the country\u2019s ancient and enduring civilization.\n <\/p>\n
\n Former Iranian foreign minister, Javad Zarif, lambasted the \u201carrogant, ignorant descendants\u201d of ancient Europeans, in an apparent reference to Trump.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIran stood at the heart of the cradle of civilization while your ancestors in Europe (as the US wasn\u2019t even on the map) were still in the Stone Age \u2013 painting faces and swinging clubs,\u201d Zarif posted on X<\/a>. \u201cWe taught order, law and statecraft. Pity none of it reached some arrogant, ignorant descendants.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Earlier, the Iranian embassy in South Africa posted<\/a>, \u201cWhen you were still in caves searching for sure, we were inscribing human rights on the Cyrus Cylinder,\u201d referring to the 2,600-year-old<\/a> artifact chronicling how the Persian king Cyrus captured the city of Babylon in 539 B.C.\n <\/p>\n \n Iran\u2019s mission to the UN<\/a> said Iranian civilization \u201cspans more than 7,000 years, whereas the US is scarcely 250 years old.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Over recent days, Trump has invoked increasingly violent language to describe US-Israeli military strikes on Iran. On Wednesday, he threatened to<\/a> bomb the country \u201cback to the Stone Age.\u201d A day later, the US president warned there<\/a> would be \u201cmuch more to follow\u201d if Tehran does not agree to halt retaliatory strikes in the region. Rights advocates and analysts have slammed that rhetoric as \u201cracist\u201d and \u201cdehumanizing.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cSaying tonight that Iranians should be bombed \u2018back to the Stone Age where they belong\u2019 is anti-Muslim, racist, and dehumanizing, and targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime,\u201d the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group in the US, said in a statement<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A slew of Iranian diplomats mocked US President Donald Trump on Friday after he warned the country would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-562786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}