Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif challenged President Donald Trump to “drain the swamp” of Washington war hawks like John Bolton.
Iran's top diplomat struck back at threats from President Donald Trump, accusing him of prolonging the protracted conflicts launched by his predecessors and pursuing lucrative weapons deals with countries accused of human rights abuses.
In a follow-up tweet Monday, the latest rhetorical salvo at a time of heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran, Zarif reiterated recent accusations that the so-called B-Team—composed of White House National Security Adviser John Bolton, Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and United Arab Emirates President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan—was attempting to prove a U.S.-Iran conflict and, in doing so, force Trump to betray one of his campaign tenets.
While the phrase"drain the swamp" has been used in the U.S. since the 1980s to refer to a purge of Washington bureaucrats, Trump recently repopularized it as part of his seemingly anti-establishment angle of attack toward taking the White House.
Russia and China also called on Europe to keep its word in spite of U.S. threats, while two of the few international voices praising Trump's decision to leave were Israel and Saudi Arabia, two of Iran's top regional foes. The two countries—both close U.S.
As the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group arrived in the Persian Gulf amid the latest warnings, a number of powerful Shiite Muslim militias, such as Lebanon's Hezbollah, Iraq's Kataeb Hezbollah and Hezbollah al-Nujaba Movement, have warned they would respond to any U.S. hostilities in the region.
Muscat largely stayed neutral in the overlapping conflicts and crises enveloping the Middle East, even going as far as to receive Netanyahu last year despite Oman being of one of all but two Arab states without any formal ties with Israel. In its unique position, Oman has at times acted as a quiet conduit between the U.S.
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