Tehran, Iran (CNN) Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has responded to President Donald Trump's recent threats to Tehran on Twitter, saying that the United States "is not in a position to obliterate Iran."

Speaking exclusively to CNN a week after Iran downed a US military drone, Zarif said that US actions have been "confrontational" and "provocative" but that Iran is not seeking war.

"I think President Trump should remember that we don't live in the 18th century. There is a United Nations charter, and threat of wars is illegal," Zarif said.

Amid escalating tensions between the Trump administration and Tehran, the US President warned Tuesday that any subsequent attack Iran might carry out on "anything American" would be met with "great and overwhelming force."

"In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration," the President tweeted.

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