Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted Iran’s leaders during the country’s annual anti-Israel holiday.

Pompeo waded into a controversy that erupted this week after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s website put up an image calling for the end of Israel that included the phrase “final solution.” After backlash, Khamenei and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif claimed that the phrase wasn’t calling for death to Jews — just to Israel.

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