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The Iranian Foreign Minister denounced the United States as the world's largest arms salesman, saying that Washington's excessive arms exports undermine world peace.
Mohammad Javad Zarif reacted to a video on the timelapse of weapons, which became viral earlier this week, depicting the massive flow of US military exports to different continents over the past 67 years.
The video was created by scientist Will Geary, based on statistics compiled by the Arms Transfer Database of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) – which contains information on all major conventional arms transfers between 1950 and the most recent calendar year.
"US destabilizes the world" Zarif tweeted on Twitter, adding, "Yet his guns can not even secure his citizens: 35% of global military spending has led to preventing 15 Saudis from murdering and injuring> 9000 Americans on September 11. "
Earlier this week, the US State Department announced that President Donald Trump had given the go-ahead to his plan to boost US arms sales . The "Buy American" plan, which had been prepared at the request of Trump, has raised controversy at home, with senior lawmakers warning that such a measure would make it more likely that US-origin weapons "end up between the hands of
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