Iran’s supreme leader said on Friday that US threats against his country “will get them nowhere,” after President Donald Trump warned of possible military action against the Islamic republic.

Axar.az reports citing AFP, “The Americans should know threats will get them nowhere when confronting Iran,” Ali Khamenei said in his live annual televised speech marking Nowruz, the Persian New Year.

He said Americans “and others should know that if they do anything malign to the Iranian nation, they will get a hard slap.”

Khamenei has previously dismissed Trump’s overtures for talks, accusing the US president of attempting to deceive global public opinion by portraying the United States as willing to negotiate and Iran as unwilling to engage.

Trump, who began his second term in January, has reinstated his policy of “maximum pressure” against Tehran.