Washington 0
26 February 2020

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took to Twitter to assert that “Iran’s regime is facing a crisis of legitimacy with parliamentary elections at their lowest turnout since 1979. Rather than take responsibility, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is lying about his killing of civilians on a commercial plane and on internal health risks in Iran. He is wasting the children of Iran by killing them in foolish revolutionary expeditions in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq”.

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