Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has turned a recent United States statement, about a protest in Iran, back against his American counterpart–by exposing how the same comments can easily be applied to the internal US situation.
The original statement by Mike Pompeo, issued on Wednesday, had accused Tehran of “squandering its citizens’ resources… in adventurism in Syria, its support of Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis” and states that “it should be no surprise [to] no one that protests continue in Iran.”
“The people of Iran are tired of the corruption, injustice and incompetence from their leaders. The world hears their voice,” Pompeo said.
The version published by Zarif on Thursday takes Pompeo’s words pretty much verbatim, but replaces Iran with the US. The US is “squandering its citizens’ resources… in adventurism in Iraq and Afghanistan, its blind support for Israel and other terrorism-sponsoring nations,” the statement said.
“Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones,” Zarif remarked, as he posted his rebuttal on Twitter.
