Pompeo: Iran’s Zarif either ignorant or lying about drone loss

Published July 19, 2019 9:52pm ET



Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had some pointed words about Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Friday, as Tehran denies that the United States downed an Iranian drone.

“It went down, and the fact that Foreign Minister Zarif either didn’t know or lied about it I can’t account for,” Pompeo told reporters Friday while traveling in Argentina. “It happened.”

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