Seriously?
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham has made the United States a laughingstock after she confusingly said that the Islamic Republic of Iran had been violating the 2015 nuclear deal even before its existence.
The newly-appointed press secretary said in a statement on Monday that, “There is little doubt that even before the deal’s existence, Iran was violating its terms,” referring to Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), from which American President Donald Trump withdrew the US in May last year.
Grisham, who was charged with driving under influence in 2013 and 2015, has been a top aide to US president and First Lady Melania Trump and also her communications director. She replaced Sarah Sanders on Friday.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif mocked Grisham’s wired statement on Tuesday. He posted a screengrab of the statement on his official Twitter account with that sentence highlighted, asking, “Seriously?”
Seriously?
–Professor Steve Saideman, of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs in Canada and founder of the Canadian Defense and Security Network, also wondered in a tweet whether Grisham had uttered the strange words while being under the influence of “Too many time travel movies?”
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