Iran, Jan. 24 -- Iran will consider any attack against the country as a full-scale war and will respond as harshly as possible, a senior Iranian official said.

"This time, we take any attack - limited, unlimited, surgical, kinetic, whatever they call it - as an all-out war against us, and we will respond in the hardest way possible," the official told reporters on Friday.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the senior Iranian official said that Tehran was "in a much better situation than during the 12-Day War."US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a large number of US military ships were moving toward Iran "just in case."Trump has said that he would support new strikes on Iran if Tehran attempted to continue developing its missi...