“The west must cease financing and harboring terrorists. From their safe havens in US and Europe, they promote hatred, agitate & organize murder & mayhem, and shamelessly claim responsibility for the murder of innocent Iranian civilians. Smokescreens can’t obscure this hypocrisy,” Zarif tweeted late Saturday.

Earlier Saturday, Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced that it had arrested the ringleader of an anti-Iran terrorist group based in the United States.

It said that Iranian security forces had managed to arrest the head of the terrorist group named Tondar, Jamshid Sharmahd, who directed armed operations and acts of sabotage" in Iran from the US.

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