New Delhi, April 6 -- Mohammad Fathali, Ambassador of Iran in India said on Monday that the actions by the US and Israel are reminiscent of a form of modern barbarism in the behavior and rhetoric.

Fathali, in a written interview to ANI was asked about US President Donald Trump's remarks, including threatening to bomb Iran "back to the stone ages," and recently claimed that a major bridge near Tehran had been destroyed.

"We are a nation with a civilization stretching back thousands of years, and we will never return to the "Stone Age." What we are witnessing today is, more than anything, reminiscent of a form of modern barbarism in the behavior and rhetoric of individuals such as Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. The killing of children, att...