Srinagar, April 7 -- Kashmir's chief cleric and Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Tuesday condemned the remark by US President Donald Trump that "a whole civilisation will die" if Iran does not accept his deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz .

In a post on X, Mirwaiz said "the tweet by the president of America yesterday was too disgraceful to warrant a response. It seems by today his frustration has peaked and he is now threatening death to an entire civilisation in one night!.""The Israel-US nexus and countries which support them and their ideology of hegemony and hate have brought the world to this dangerous and inhuman pass, where an open call to genocide of an entire nation is made with total impunity and disregard for human princi...