Watch the chilling moment Iranian lawmakers chant “death to America, death to Israel” amid escalating tensions with Donald Trump. All dressed in the uniform of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – the military body which defends the Islamic regime – hordes of politicians were led by parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghaliba in the incendiary chant.The unsettling video has emerged just hours after the Iranian regime declared Europe’s militaries “terror groups” in retaliation against the European Union proscribing the IRGC on Thursday. Brussels’s decision to blacklist the group has consequently piled pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to follow suit, which he is yet to do.Mr Ghalibaf said: “By trying to hit the revolutionary guards… the Europeans actually shot themselves in the foot and once again made a decision against the interests of their people by blindly obeying the Americans.”According to Article 7 of the Law on Countermeasures Against the Declaration of the Revolutionary Guards as a Terrorist Organisation, the armies of European countries are considered terrorist groups.”Meanwhile, the US President has refused to shy away from expanding its military presence in waters near Iran.Mr Trump has become increasingly critical of Tehran’s bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters, which has resulted in thousands of people being killed.Earlier this week, Mr Trump warned a “massive armada” was on its way towards the country. Hordes of politicians echoed the chant in the parliament | XThe politicians were dressed in the IRGC uniform”We have an armada … heading in that direction, and maybe we won’t have to use it,” the President teased while he was aboard Air Force One.On Saturday, Mr Trump disclosed Iran was “seriously talking” to the White House while his administration looks to strike a deal on Tehran’s nuclear programme.The President added a settled deal could stave off any looming military attacks from United States.On his way to Florida, he told reporters: “You could make a negotiated deal that would be satisfactory with no nuclear weapons.
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Mr Trump said Iran was ‘seriously talking’ to the US | REUTERS”They should do that, but I don’t know that they will. They are talking to us – seriously talking.”However, the US President kept details under wraps for the most part, insisting America would not share information about a potential military attack on Iran with regional allies.”Well, we can’t tell them the plan. If I told them the plan, it would be almost as bad as telling you the plan – it could be worse, actually,” he mused.If Washington did not shake on a deal with Tehran, Mr Trump added: “Otherwise, we’ll see what happens… We have a big fleet heading out there, bigger than we had – and still have, actually – in Venezuela.”However, American threats have been met with disgruntlement from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation’s supreme Leader. On Sunday, the 86-year-old declared any military attack on the country would set a regional war ablaze. Tasnim news agency claimed Khamenei said: “The Americans should know that if they start a war, this time it will be a regional war.”Meanwhile, Iran’s national security chief Ali Larijani said: “Contrary to the hype of the contrived media war, structural arrangements for negotiations are progressing.”