December 29, 2017
Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said the foreign minister of Bahrain is too petty a person for Iran to bother responding to his critical comments about Iran, the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported. In the past year, Qasemi and other Iranian officials have more frequently made demeaning personal remarks about foreigners, perhaps just copying the demeanor of President Trump, but not helping advance Iranian goals by reducing diplomacy to nastiness.