The warning, by Iran's military chief, was the latest and most aggressive volley in a nearly daily exchange of barbed statements between Iran and the United States.
Analysts and experts expect the clash between the carriers to continue to play out in the public arena, most likely through similar barbed statements and ad campaigns, as each criticizes the other's capabilities and services.
The self-directed video makes a statement on the refugee crisis, portraying groups of men packed on flotilla boats, while others scale vast border fences topped with barbed wire.
The mayor's barbed remarks came in a 15-minute statement he made on the second of two days of landmark hearings in Manhattan by the commission, which came to New York to offer to most exhaustive public accounting to date of how the city government responded to the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.
Recent statements on the campaign trail, and barbed accusations by both candidates about their opponent's ability to handle classified information, have focused attention on the intelligence briefings and raised questions about how much, or how little, the spies will share with the candidates.
The Interior Ministry said in a statement that the protesters had cut the barbed wire and crossed over the concrete blocks to reach the roads leading to the headquarters.
Now a whiff of conciliation albeit still a bit barbed, is in the air, according to the Vivendi statement: "M.I.T. has now contacted us and apparently recognizes its responsibility to compensate creators for the use of their works.
"He's a delightfully disheveled misanthrope with a twisted, brilliant mind and a heart of barbed wire," Wilson said of his character in a statement.
North Korea regularly issues barbed statements and vows to inflict harsh punishments on its enemies, but it often does not deliver on its threats.
It is a 45-square-mile district, isolated by towering concrete blast walls, reams of barbed wire, and foreign soldiers who patrol its perimeters," Jaques recalls in her artist statement of her time spent there.
