"I doubt that they have the courage to do so in the course of a possible conflict in the future," Maj Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi said, as cited by Iran’s IRIB broadcaster.

Trump previously stated that the US had identified 52 Iranian sites that would be attacked "very fast and very hard" if Tehran struck any US citizens or assets in the wake of the high-profile assassination of the commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force.