US imitating Daesh in threatening Iran's cultural sites: Zarif

Iran's Foreign Minister has decried the Trump administration's threats to target Iran's "cultural sites" as an imitation of the Daesh terrorist group's known behavior of targeting the cultural heritage of regional countries. The US "seeks to emulate the war crimes of Daesh, menacing the cultural heritage of the millennia-old civilization of Iran," Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote in a speech addressing a United Nations Security Council meeting of Thursday. The remarks were read during...