Source: https://twitter.com/JZarif/  Iran Foreign Minister took to Twitter to accuse to U.S. of being racist amid the killing of a black man  by a white police officer in  Minnesota that has spawned angry protests across American over racial injustice. 

By Gary Raynaldo     DIPLOMATIC TIMES

Iran’s Foreign Minister accused the United States of fostering “deadly racial discrimination”  and condemned the “tragic murder of black people”.  Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Republic of Iran’s Foreign Affairs Minister, said fresh cases of U.S. police brutality against black people across America show that this type of violence against African Americans “knows no boundaries”.   Zarif made the comments this week in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man, by a white Minnesota Police officer. 

Zarif tweeted: “Some don’t think #BlackLivesMatter. To those of us who do: it is long overdue for the entire world to wage war against racism. Time for a #WorldAgainstRacism.”

Some don't think #BlackLivesMatter.

To those of us who do: it is long overdue for the entire world to wage war against racism.

Time for a #WorldAgainstRacism. pic.twitter.com/06p1LmmwgF

— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) May 30, 2020

Zarif  tweeted a marked-up  2018 news release the U.S. State Department sent amid protests in Iran that criticized Tehran’s suppression anti-government protests,   turning Washington’s own words against them– crossing out Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s name and replacing it with his own.  “The US government is squandering its citizens’ resources… As I have said before, it should surprise no one that protests continue in America,” Zarif wrote in the altered State Department briefing.

U.S. Secretary of State Fires Back at Iran Foreign Minister on Twitter: 

“You hang homosexuals, stone women and exterminate Jews.”

You hang homosexuals, stone women and exterminate Jews. pic.twitter.com/eip0bu8RIL

— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) May 30, 2020