US to regret Trump’s ‘foolish’ embassy decision: Ali Akbar Velayati

US President Donald Trump’s “foolish” move to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as the Israeli capital has dealt “the last blow” to the American “political life” in the Islamic world, says a senior Iranian official.

In a statement delivered at the closing ceremony of the 31st International Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran on Thursday night, Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, said the US would regret Trump’s “foolish” decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem al-Quds — Islam’s third holiest city.

“Trump must beware that this move is the last blow to the US political life in the Islamic world and Western Asia, and it will not be long before the American establishment regrets it. Because it would ignite the wrath of over one-and-a-half billion Muslims,” read part of the statement.

Since the US Congress ruled in 1995 that the embassy be relocated from Tel Aviv, every president has deferred the troublesome measure by signing a six-month waiver included in the bill.