Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday blasted US President Donald Trump’s pledge of support for Saudi Arabia despite the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Reuters reported.
“Mr. Trump bizarrely devotes the FIRST paragraph of his shameful statement on Saudi atrocities to accuse IRAN of every sort of malfeasance he can think of,” tweeted Zarif.
“Perhaps we’re also responsible for the California fires, because we didn’t help rake the forests— just like the Finns do?” he added, in a reference to Trump’s comments when visiting the scene of California’s devastating Camp Fire on Saturday, when he said Finland had managed to avoid such fires by spending “a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things” to clear forest floors.
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