Zarif Mocks Pompeo for Making Misleading Claim Amid Push to Extend Iranian Arms Ban

Zarif Mocks Pompeo for Making Misleading Claim Amid Push to Extend Iranian Arms Ban
# 24 June 2020 03:37 (UTC +04:00)

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday pointed to a glaring flaw in his US counterpart's estimates of how far Tehran would be able to send it jets if the UN arms embargo on it lapsed this fall, APA reports quoting Sputnik.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo posted a map on Twitter claiming that Europe and Asia could be in Iran’s crosshairs if it bought "highly lethal" fighters like Russia’s SU-30 and China’s J-10 once the arms ban expired on 18 October.

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