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Sunday, August 19, 2018
Zarif: US trying to topple Iran regime, but will fail
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif says the US is planning to overthrow the Iranian regime, but vows it will fail.
In a tweet this morning, he lambasts the establishment last week in the US State Department of the Iran Action Group, meant to coordinate various US government activities that seek to pressure Iran to end its military activities in Syria, Iraq and around the region, and to curtail its nuclear and missile development programs.
The new body would seek to reprise the 1953 US- and British-led ouster of the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh, Zarif warns.
“65 years ago today, the US overthrew the popularly elected democratic government of Dr. Mossadegh,” Zarif writes, “restoring the dictatorship & subjugating Iranians for the next 25 years. Now an “Action Group” dreams of doing the same through pressure, misinformation & demagoguery. Never again.”
65 years ago today, the US overthrew the popularly elected democratic government of Dr. Mossadegh, restoring the dictatorship & subjugating Iranians for the next 25 years. Now an “Action Group” dreams of doing the same through pressure, misinformation & demagoguery. Never again. pic.twitter.com/ic3o652awn
— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) August 19, 2018
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