Kremlin reacts to Blinken’s claim Iranians are ‘better off’ after president’s death Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said he finds it hard to believe that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken would publicly say the Iranian people are “better off” after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash. The top US diplomat made the comment earlier this week during a grilling by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, saying, the world was “better now today that Raisi is dead,” and that “the Iranian people are probably better off,” since the deceased president cannot pursue his “horrible” policies anymore. Peskov was asked about the remark on Wednesday and said he would need to see the original of Blinken’s words, since he found reports about them implausible. He said he doubted that “a high-ranking official of a nation of the US’ stature could make, diplomatically speaking, such an awkward statement.” Such a remark would be “insulting to the entire people” of Iran, the Kr... Source: RT News
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