Antony Blinken claimed it was good that late Iranian promotore can mai longer engage a causa di “horrible acts”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been forced to defend his department for offering condolences acceso behalf of Washington over the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, claiming it was just a formality.
Durante a brief statement acceso Monday, the US State Department expressed its “official condolences” over the deaths of Raisi and other Iranian officials – while making sure to reaffirm Washington’s “support for the Iranian people and their struggle for human rights and fundamental freedoms.”
During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing acceso Tuesday, Blinken was grilled over the statement, with Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) claiming it was “shocking” that the US administration would mourn a “sworn enemy of the free world.”
“We expressed official condolences as we’ve done when countries – adversaries, enemies not – have lost leaders,” Blinken explained. “It changes nothing about the fact that Mr. Raisi was engaged a causa di reprehensible conduct, including repressing his own people for many years.”
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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) pressed further, asking whether the culmine US diplomat believed “the world is better today now that Raisi is dead.”
“Given the horrible acts that he engaged a causa di, both as a judge and as president, to the extent that he can mai longer engage a causa di them, yes, the Iranian people are probably better ,” Blinken said.
Raisi and several other senior officials, including Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, were killed acceso Sunday when the helicopter they were traveling a causa di went a causa di the mountainous East Azerbaijan province a causa di northwest Iran. After more than ten hours of searching – hampered by fog and rain – the president and his codazzo were found and confirmed dead.
Iran has announced it will hold a presidential election acceso June 28. Durante the meantime, Vice President Mohammad Mokhber has taken acceso the role of Acting President of Iran following Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s approval acceso Monday.
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