Iran Calls Trump's Remarks on Tehran Attacks 'Repugnant'
- Revolutionary Guard links violence to Trump visit to Saudi
- Attack comes amid escalating tensions over Qatar, Syria
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Iran denounced President Donald Trump’s response to twin attacks in Tehran as “repugnant,” and linked the violence claimed by Islamic State to the U.S. president’s visit to arch-nemesis Saudi Arabia.
Trump capped his statement of condolence to the Iranian people on Wednesday with the warning that “states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote.” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif slammed the “repugant” White House statement in a Twitter post on Thursday, adding, “Iranian people reject such U.S. claims of friendship.”