Iran’s top diplomat blasted the “B-Team” and says it is pushing U.S. policy toward “disaster.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blasted a group of four individuals looking to push their countries toward war with Iran.
"If he wants to push Iran into accepting a new deal that would be selling our dignity then he won't be able to do it, and then Plan B of the B-Team will come into play," Zarif added."I believe that the B-Team does not have the same plan as President Trump does. President Trump has a plan, but he's being lured not into a plan but a plot, which will cost another $7 trillion and an even greater disaster.
Ties between the U.S. and Iran have been hostile since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that ousted a pro-West monarchy in Tehran, replacing it with a religious leadership currently headed by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Zarif's latest remarks, however, came as the Trump administration took unprecedented steps toward punishing its longtime foe, such as recently designating the elite Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organization.
In response, the Revolutionary Guards have renewed their threat to shut the Strait of Hormuz, a vital Persian Gulf waterway in which a third of the world's oil traffic passes. Zarif described the strait as a"lifeline" and vowed his country would protect its"stability,""freedom of navigation" and"free flow of oil" in line with Iran's"national interests.
The group again coalesced alongside other Western and Middle Eastern states for February's Warsaw summit, jointly hosted by the U.S. and Poland.
"It's not just Russia and China, everybody is fed up with unilateralism," Zarif said Wednesday in response to a question from Newsweek."The rest of the world is not very happy with the unilateralist policies of the United States, and Iran is a part of that part of the world."
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