US President Donald Trump made clear Thursday that military action was not "off the table" after the White House warned Tehran over its weekend missile launch. "Nothing's off the table," Trump told reporters when asked about military action, a day after his national security advisor had issued the warning. Michael Flynn said Wednesday the White House was "officially putting Iran on notice" and criticized the country's "destabilizing behavior across the Middle East." The White House did not specify what actions might be taken if Tehran continued its provocations, or whether military actions were a possibility. The Iranian Foreign Ministry called the US warning "baseless and provocative." The missile Iran launched cannot carry a nuclear warhead and the test was not in violation of 2015 UN Security Council resolution, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said. The White House however says the medium-range missile launched Sunday was "inherently capable" of being used to launch a nuclear weapon. The move was a violation of UN Security Council resolution 2231, which prohibits Iran from taking any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering a nuclear weapon, Flynn said.
