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Publishing date: Jan 12, 2021 • January 12, 2021 • 3 minute read •
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WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday without providing hard evidence that al Qaeda had established a new home base in Iran and that it was time “for America and all free nations to crush the Iran-al-Qaeda axis.”
The comments, rejected by Iran as “warmongering lies,” in some ways echoed former U.S. President George W. Bush’s 2002 description of Iraq, Iran and North Korea as part of an “axis of evil” a comment he made about a year before invading Iraq.
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