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Friday 23 October 2020
Mahmoud Islami was speaking at a briefing at Iran’s Embassy in Dublin.
Trump has said that new economic sanctions will be imposed on Iran after the strike this morning.
The US drone strike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani has sparked fury in both Iran and Iraq.
Pro-Iran factions have ramped up pressure on US forces in Iraq since Friday’s drone strike.
The US President has also claimed that Iranian leaders aren’t as saddened as they will “let the outside world believe”.
The killing of Iran’s top general could draw forceful Iranian retaliation against American interests in the Middle East.
The Pentagon described the operation as a “decisive defensive action”.
Presidential hopeful Joe Biden said we could be on the brink of a “major conflict across the Middle East”.
US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump and former vice president Joe Biden took part in another debate last night, the final head-to-head before voting on 3 November.
The previous debate was fractious and almost unwatchable as the pair shouted over each other, but last night was more measured by comparison.
Trump denied being racist, saying no US president since Abraham Lincoln has “done what I’ve done for the black community”. Biden then said Trump “pours fuel on every single racist fire” and claimed he “has a dog whistle about as big as a fog horn”.
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Showers around in the morning; some sun
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Mainly cloudy, showers around; breezy
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