Iran comments Trump threats to its navy in Persian Gulf

Iran's armed forces chief of staff Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri has criticized Donald Trump for his past harsh words about confronting Iranian boats in the Persian Gulf.

"The person who has recently achieved power, has talked off the top of his head! Threatening Iran in the Persian Gulf is just a joke," the Fars news agency cited Bagheri as saying.

He said American presidential candidates during their campaigns "eat too much sugar," a reference to a Farsi proverb about those who talk nonsense.

In September, Trump said Iranian ships trying to provoke the U.S. "will be shot out of the water."