Friday, July 19, 2019

POLICY_ Pompeo: Iran’s Zarif either ignorant or lying about drone loss

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Pompeo: Iran’s Zarif either ignorant or lying about drone loss


by Joel Gehrke | July 19, 2019 05:52 PM


Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had some pointed words about Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Friday, as Tehran denies that the United States downed an Iranian drone.

“It went down, and the fact that Foreign Minister Zarif either didn’t know or lied about it I can’t account for,” Pompeo told reporters Friday while traveling in Argentina. “It happened.”

The drone was taken down using electronic jamming after “clos[ing] within a threatening range” of a U.S. Navy ship in the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. officials. President Trump cited the incident as “the latest of many provocative and hostile actions” by the regime in the Persian Gulf. Iranian officials insist that they did not lose a drone but nonetheless proceeded to seize two oil tankers Friday.

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