Iranian
Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said on Sunday that a new Iran
Action Group in the U.S. State Department aimed to overthrow the Islamic
Republic, but would fail.
Read more: Iran says U.S. 'action group' will fail to overthrow Iranian state | CBC News
He was speaking on the 65th anniversary
of a U.S.-backed coup that overthrew a democratically elected Iranian
prime minister, an occasion when anti-American sentiment
runs particularly high in the Islamic Republic.
Comparing fresh U.S. sanctions on Tehran imposed by President Donald Trump with the 1953 coup that ousted nationalist Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, Zarif said Tehran will not let history repeat itself.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday named senior policy adviser Brian Hook as special representative for Iran in charge of the Iran Action Group to co-ordinate Trump's pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic following Washington's withdrawal from an international nuclear deal with Tehran.
Comparing fresh U.S. sanctions on Tehran imposed by President Donald Trump with the 1953 coup that ousted nationalist Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, Zarif said Tehran will not let history repeat itself.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday named senior policy adviser Brian Hook as special representative for Iran in charge of the Iran Action Group to co-ordinate Trump's pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic following Washington's withdrawal from an international nuclear deal with Tehran.
Read more: Iran says U.S. 'action group' will fail to overthrow Iranian state | CBC News
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