Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said on Sunday that a new Iran Action Group in the U.S. State Department aimed to overthrow the Islamic Republic, but would fail. Comparing fresh U.S. sanctions on Tehran imposed by President Donald Trump with the 1953 coup that ousted nationalist Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, Zarif said Tehran will not let history repeat itself. Now an 'Action Group' dreams of doing the same through pressure, misinformation & demagoguery. Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said the coup was the best historical lesson that Americans cannot be trusted. Decades of hostility eased somewhat with the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and then-U.S. president Barack Obama's administration and five other world powers.

Source: CBC News August 19, 2018 09:56 UTC