Iran Pushes Back after Trump's Charges of Anti-Semitism
Iran's foreign minister is pushing back after President Donald Trump said the country does "bad, bad things" and appeared to link it to the deadly attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue last year by an American anti-Semite.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted Wednesday that "Iranians — including our Jewish compatriots — are commemorating 40 yrs of progress despite US pressure, just as @realDonaldTrump again makes accusations against us."
In his State of the Union address, Trump said Iran "chants death to America and threatens genocide against the Jewish people. We must never ignore the vile poison of anti-Semitism or those who spread its venomous creed."
He then spoke about the synagogue shooting, in which 11 people were killed, without directly implicating Iran.
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What Iran says, through its elected leaders, is that the Jewish state as a power structure in Palestine is headed for the dustbin of history. It's very much like saying slavery is doomed. Let me expand on that, noting that one commenter here says Lebanon's religion-based parties all rely on foreign help. If the slaves refuse to be slaves, slavery is doomed.
