Iran will target US economic interests if Washington maintains its maritime blockade.

Axar.az reports, citing Iran International, that Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei made the remarks on Thursday, as the Trump administration steps up efforts to tighten Iran’s economic isolation.

“If the blockade continues, we will target US economic interests 100 percent, with intensity and force,” Rezaei told Lebanon’s Al-Manar television.

US President Donald Trump said Thursday that Tehran was “begging to make a deal,” declaring that “Iran Is a Failing Nation!” in a social media post.

Rezaei shrugged off Trump’s Operation Economic Fury, claiming Iran had already “broken the maritime blockade” during the ceasefire and exported between 70 million and 80 million barrels of oil.

He said oil sales had returned to pre-sanctions levels and that Tehran had established new export routes that were gradually expanding.