Iran Press/ Iran news: “Mr. Trump bizarrely devotes the FIRST paragraph of his shameful statement on Saudi atrocities to accuse IRAN of every sort of malfeasance he can think of,” Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted a few hours after the US President Donald Trump said in a statement that the Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman may have been aware of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi while stressing that Saudi Arabia would remain a ‘steadfast partner’ of the United States in the fight against Iran.
According to Iran Press, Zarif also ridiculed Trump’s anti-Iran statement as “perhaps we’re also responsible for the California fires, because we didn’t help rake the forests — just like the Finns do?”
Ignoring the CIA’s conclusion that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the brutal killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, US president Trump declared his strong support for Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
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“The country of Iran, as an example, is responsible for a bloody proxy war against Saudi Arabia in Yemen,” Trump claimed in his statement titled ‘America First’ which was released on Tuesday by the White House.
He also praised Saudi Arabia as US ally in standing against Iran.
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reported on Friday that Saudi Crown Prince ordered the gruesome murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom’s consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul last month.
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"It could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event," Trump said in the statement, though "maybe he did and maybe he didn't!"
In remarks outside the White House before departing for the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Trump said the CIA had "nothing definitive" on the crown prince's involvement.
The kingdom is a "steadfast partner" that has agreed to invest a record amount of money in the US, Trump said in a statement.
US president acknowledged Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman "could very well" have known about Khashoggi's murder.
"In any case, our relationship is with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," Trump added.
Jamal Khashoggi once close aid of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and later active critic and dissident of al-Saud regime entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October, where he was brutally murdered.
Once inside, Khashoggi was immediately strangled and then dismembered, according to the Istanbul Prosecutor’s office.
The Saudi government denied Khashoggi's killing for more than two weeks, but eventually admitted on 20 October that Khashoggi had been murdered in the consulate during an interrogation by 'rogue operatives that had gone wrong' after diplomatic pressure grew on the Kingdom to give an account of the mysterious fate of its national.101/202
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