Be careful with threats that could come back and bite: Trump to Iran

US President Donald Trump has warned Iran over its decision to increase uranium enrichment by "any amount that is required", saying it should be mindful with the threats that could come back and bite.

Washington: Reacting to statements from Iran on the on-going nuclear issue, US President Donald Trump has warned the former against making threats that could "come back to bite" .

Speaking at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had said that his country would increase its uranium enrichment by "any amount that is required" unless the remaining signatories of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA) help ease crushing the US against the country, media reports said.

Responding to it, Trump wrote on Twitter: "Iran has just issued a New Warning. Rouhani says that they will enrich Uranium to "any amount we want" if there is no new Nuclear Deal. Be careful with the threats, Iran. They can come back to bite you like nobody has been bitten before!"

"In any amount that we want, any amount that is required, we will take over 3.67," Rouhani said, adding that our advice to Europe and the United States is to go back to logic and to the negotiating table.

"Go back to understanding, to respecting the law and resolutions of the UN Security Council. Under those conditions, all of us can abide by the nuclear deal."

Citing an "informed source," media in Iran had reported that Iran has exceeded the amount of enriched uranium that it was allowed to have under a 2015 nuclear deal.

The country stopped complying with some elements of the agreement in May, a year after the US unilaterally withdrew from the deal.

The agreement was signed with an aim to limit Iran's civilian energy programme, thereby preventing it from developing nuclear weapons at some point in the future, in exchange for relief from sanctions that were crippling the country's economy.

The deal was hailed as a major diplomatic victory by the Obama administration. However, last year, Donald Trump-led US government had withdrawn from the deal, terming it as "defective at its core".

Washington's decision of pulling out from the agreement soured its ties with Iran. In the past year, the Trump administration has slapped a multitude of sanctions on Tehran citing the latter's support to state-sponsored terrorism and conflicts.