Javad Zarif, Foreign Minister of Iran
The quote that's making headlines (but they're not repeating it entirely):
The United States, based on misinformation, based on ignorance & arrogance combined, took a course that has brought the region to the brink.
The entire interview is 26 mins long: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/iran-foreign-minister-zarif-full-interview-with-nbc-news-richard-engel-78791749964
The parts edited out of the video above:
- Trump is receiving bad information about the region from his advisors
- US sympathy in the world is low, eg. there are posters of Soleimani in Rome
- The background of the K-1 airbase attack ... it's come out today in NYT & other MSM (ISIS attacked it, not Kataib Hezbollah)
- Soleimani told PMU to chill after US took out their bases & killed dozens of them, right before he was killed
- Iraqi parliament has asked US to leave
- Trump's plan for Palestine has incited violence happening right now
- Even Republican-controlled Senate is tired of loose cannons in the Whitehouse
- American people don't want Trump to go on a disasterous adventure
- Trump needs to accept that maximum pressure on Iran & tearing up the JCPOA was a mistake
- Iran is not being given the tools to read what's in the blackbox
- Boeing has been invited to take part in the investigation but so far hasn't accepted & won't help with blackbox
---- this last part is chilling, starting from 24:25 ----
- Iran is not interested in escelation, it takes a lot of courage from Trump to admit he's made a mistake with his Iran policy
- More of the same will continue until US can walk back, people are responsible for the consequences of their actions