<span style="color: #222222;">Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said, the US decision to deploy 1,500 additional troops to West Asia is a threat to international peace.<br />'' <br />'' Talking to official IRNA news agency, Mr Zarif said, the increased US presence in the region is dangerous and a threat to international peace and security and must be confronted.<br />'' <br />'' Washington has said, the reinforcements, are in response to the campaign of recent attacks approved by Iran's top leadership.<br />'' <br />'' These come after the deployment of an aircraft carrier task force, B-52 bombers, an amphibious assault ship and a missile defence system earlier this month.<br />'' <br />'' The United States this month ended the last exemptions it had granted from sweeping unilateral sanctions it reimposed after abandoning a landmark 2015 nuclear between major powers and Iran in May last year.<br />'' <br />'' The move dealt a heavy new blow to Iran's already reeling economy as even vocal critics of the renewed sanctions, like Turkey, announced they had stopped buying Iranian oil. </span><br />'' <br />''  <br />