India, April 1 -- Mocking the Iran threat to US companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Google, President Donald Trump on Tuesday wondered what the Iranians have threatened the tech giants with - "BB guns?"

Iran's elite military unit, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said on Tuesday that they will target American companies, and not just those working on military bases, in West Asia/Gulf region as of April 1, if more Iranian leaders were killed in "targeted assassinations". Track latest in Iran war here

The 18 companies listed in the IRGC's threat included Microsoft, Google, Apple, Intel, IBM, Tesla and Boeing.

Interacting with reporters in the White House, Trump was asked by a media person, "Iranian government threatened a ...