Seizing on comments by President Trump regarding "a military industrial complex", Foreign Minister Zarif argued that "allowing the B-Team [i.e National Security Advisor John Bolton and the leaderships of Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE] to trash diplomacy and abet war crimes - by milking despotic butchers via massive arms sales - achieves nothing but empowering that same complex". Zarif, referencing one of Trump's campaign slogans, then posed the question, "time to drain the swamp?"