New Delhi, April 2 -- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force commander Seyed Majid Moosavi fired back at US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's 'Back to the Stone Age' barb on Thursday, and said: "...with your paltry 250-year history, you threaten a civilisation over 6,000 years old."

Hegseth was reiterating US President Donald Trump's remark during the latter's address to the nation, where he stated that Iran would be hit so hard that it would go "back to the Stone Age".

While delivering his address to the nation, Trump said that Iran would be hit "extremely hard" amid ongoing diplomatic talks between the two sides in order to sign a deal to end the conflict, which has been going on for over a month.

"We are going...