Iran's Foreign Minister Calls US Soleimani Strike an Act of Terrorism and War
Iran's Foreign Minister Calls US Soleimani Strike an Act of Terrorism and War

Iran's Foreign Minister Calls US Soleimani Strike an Act of Terrorism and War.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif made the comments during an interview with an NPR reporter.

Zarif called the U.S. drone strike that killed Maj.

Gen.

Qassem Soleimani "a cowardly armed attack" that "amounts to war." .

[Iran] will respond according to our own timing and choice.

, Mohammad Zarif, Iranian Foreign Minister, via NPR News.

The Iranian people have turned out by the tens of thousands to publicly mourn the death of Soleimani.

Zarif was asked to clarify the scope of the Iranian response to Soleimani's killing.

[In] exercising our right to self-defense, we are bound by international law, unlike the United States, which is not bound by international law, Mohammad Zarif, Iranian Foreign Minister, via NPR News.

He also stated that prisoner negotiations between the U.S. and Iran would be suspended.

Zarif was scheduled to deliver an address to the U.N.

Security Council in NYC on Thursday.

Though he applied for a visa 25 days before the address, the U.S. State Department did not issue it, stating it "didn't have enough time to issue a visa."