SCOTLAND’S First Minister John Swinney has slammed Trump’s threats against Iranian infrastructure as “unconscionable.”

The SNP leader made the remarks after the US president, still reeling from an encounter with the Easter bunny on the White House lawn, launched into an expletive-laden rant on social media threatening to destroy civilian targets such as power stations and bridges unless Iran reopened the Straits of Hormuz.

Iranian forces had effectively closed the key shipping route for Gulf oil and gas exports in response to ongoing attacks by the US and Israeli regimes, sending fuel prices rocketing around the globe.

In response, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar hit out at the US regime, arguing Mr Trump was “intent on making [the world] even more unsafe”, while Mr Swinney said: “The entire conflict in Iran should not be taking place.

“This is an unwarranted and illegal intervention by the US and Israel and what has been started by President Trump, very clearly, cannot be concluded by Donald Trump.

“The threats that are now being made, of the language and of the nature of what has been suggested in recent days, is unconscionable and it will cause enormous, enormous hardship and suffering for people who are already suffering under the Iranian regime.”

He added: “The need for de-escalation, for a solution that avoids any further military activity in Iran is absolutely essential, and the international community, other governments, have got to work to encourage and to enable such an approach to be taken.

“I would encourage the UK government, other governments of other countries and the international community to do all that is possible to be done to de-escalate this situation and to avoid this conflict causing any more damage.”