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President Donald Trump has launched a furious all-caps rebuke of Iran, declaring on Twitter that any threats to the US would be met with unspecified dire consequences.

Iran would «SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE,» Trump warned in a tweet posted on Sunday night.

Trump's angry tirade apparently came in response to earlier remarks by Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, who warned the US that war with Tehran would be the "mother of all wars.

In his comments, Rouhani warned Trump not to «play with the lion's tail, because you will regret it eternally.» He also held out the possibility of a peaceful relationship with the US, in remarks reported by Iranian state media.

Trump sent his message at 11.24 p.m. Sunday after returning to the White House from a weekend at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey. He addressed his comments directly at Rouhani: «WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH,» he wrote.

On Monday, a senior officer in Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Commander General Gholam Hossein Gheibparvar, described Trump's remarks as «psychological warfare,» the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.

Trump's comments firmly ratcheted up the tensions between Tehran and Washington. But even before his tweet, the US administration had already intensified the rhetoric.

In a blistering speech earlier on Sunday evening, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo likened the Iranian regime to the mafia, accusing the clerics that rule the country of enriching themselves and funding terrorism at the expense of ordinary Iranians.

«To the regime, prosperity, security, and freedom for the Iranian people are acceptable casualties in the march to fulfill the Revolution,» Pompeo said in remarks delivered at the Ronald Reagan National Library in Simi Valley, California.

«The level of corruption and wealth among regime leaders shows that Iran is run by something that resembles the mafia more than a government.»

Among the most startling allegations leveled by Pompeo, who was CIA director before becoming secretary of state, was that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has a personal hedge fund worth $95 billion.