Over the last week, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has given several interviews to prominent Western media outlets, talking about what he called a “B team” of US and Middle Eastern officials who are working together to push US President Trump into a military conflict with Tehran.
Speaking to Fox News' Chris Wallace on Sunday, US National Security Advisor John Bolton reacted to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif calling him part of a “B team” that includes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, Bolton joked he has been called a number of things this week.
“In the past few days the North Koreans have also called me ‘dim-sighted', the Cubans said that I'm a ‘pathological liar', — I'd say it was a pretty good week”, Bolton said sarcastically.
Speaking on a more serious note, he deemed Zarif's accusation of war-mongering “completely ridiculous', calling the entire interview a “carefully prepared propaganda script”, aiming to sow disinformation.
“The fact is that the President [Trump's] policy on Iran has been clear well before I've arrived in the administration, it is to put maximum pressure on the regime to get it to change its behaviour, and I think it's working”, he said.
Wallace recalled that in 2017 Bolton gave a speech to People's Mojahedin Organisation (MEK), an Iranian…
