The Trump administration has been accused of illicitly transferring nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, which has threatened to build a nuclear bomb if Iran did.
Iran's top diplomat has accused Saudi Arabia of killing more than 3,000 U.S. citizens, while at the same time still being allowed a path to obtaining nuclear weapons.
The so-called"28 pages" of the 9/11 Commission report indicated potential, yet unconfirmed links between two of the hijackers and the Saudi government, but some counterterrorism officials have alleged. Former President Barack Obama attempted to veto JASTA in 2016, a move Trump called"shameful" the same year he began instead describing revolutionary Shiite Muslim Iran as"the world's top state sponsor of terrorism" and ultimately won the presidency.
While Iranian officials like Zarif have repeatedly rejected these claims, Trump has cited Iran's alleged links to militant groups as one of the major reasons he left the nuclear deal forged by his predecessor alongside Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, as well as China, the European Union, France, Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom. These parties still support the deal, but Europe especially has struggled to keep it alive under threat of mounting U.S. sanctions.
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