News - Middle East - Iran: Iran’s foreign minister has reacted to recent overflights by US strategic B-52H bomber planes, noting that the Iranian nation will never be intimidated by such shows of force.

Mohammad Javad Zarif made the remarks in a tweet on Sunday, emphasizing that Iranians are not a belligerent nation and “have not started a war in over 200 years.”

“We don’t shy [away] from crushing aggressors,” Iran’s foreign minister, however, added.

Zarif also advised the administration of the outgoing US President Donald Trump not to waste the American taxpayers’ money on such empty moves, saying, “You should have spent those $billions on your taxpayers' health,” in a clear allusion to grave situation of the United States in terms of controlling the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, which has so far claimed hundreds of thousands of American lives.

Zarif’s tweet came hours after the US Central Command announced that the B-52H “Stratofortress” aircrews conducted a “presence patrol” in the Middle East on Sunday to mark the second such mission in 2021.

Source: Press TV