TEHRAN, Aug 26 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, criticised U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, for “violating his own country’s laws” and trying to “flood” the Middle East with weapons.
On a note on Twitter, Iran’s chief diplomat wrote that the U.S. Secretary of State “has no qualms about violating his own country’s laws.”
“Standing next to world’s #1 nuclear threat, he declares his desire to flood our region with even more US weapons”, the Iranian official posted.
Zarif added, an image pointing to declarations made by Pompeo, after meeting Israel’s prime minister, about “the possibility of providing the Emirates with military equipment it needs to defend itself against Iran.”
A second image shows the heading of a July 24 article on The New York Times, under the title “Trump administration is bypassing arms control pact, to sell large armed drones,” criticising weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
At the end of his note, the Iranian FM said, the U.S. Secretary of State is “trying to impede lawful normalisation of Iran’s defence cooperation” with other countries.
The United States recently failed to win a vote at the UN security Council, for its drafted resolution to extend a UN arms embargo against Iran, which expires in Oct.
