Trump deceived into ‘mother of all quagmires’ by attack on Iran: FM Zarif

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has censured US President Donald Trump for threatening Tehran over an alleged assassination plot against an American diplomat. In a tweet late on Tuesday, Zarif blasted US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a “habitual liar” and said the American diplomat had “bamboozled” Trump into assassinating top Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad earlier in the year. Zarif said Pompeo was then seeking to deceive the US president and “sucker him into mother of all quagmires by leaking a new false alarm.” The habitual liar bamboozled @realdonaldtrump into assassinating ISIS' enemy #1 by raising a...