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Iranian President Raisi's helicopter crash

Kremlin brands Blinken’s remarks on Raisi’s death as tactless

Dmitry Peskov also described Antony Blinken's words as "a boorish statement toward an entire nation"

MOSCOW, May 22. /TASS/. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov says he is at a loss as to how such a high-ranking diplomat as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken could rejoice at the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.

The Kremlin official called this an embarrassment. "To be honest, I have not yet seen the original statement. It is hard to believe that a diplomat, let alone such a high-ranking representative of a country like the United States, could say something so tactless, to put it diplomatically, and in actuality, [this is] a boorish statement toward an entire nation," Peskov told reporters.

Earlier, Blinken claimed that offering official condolences was merely a formality and Iranian people are "probably better off" without Raisi.

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