Blinken on Condolences on Death of Iranian President: ‘A Normal Course of Business’

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BLINKEN: "We expressed official condolences as we've done when countries, adversaries, enemies or not, have lost leaders. It changes nothing about the fact that Mr. Raisi was engaged in reprehensible conduct, including repressing his own people for many years as a judge and as a president. The change is not a word about our policy, but it's something that we've done many times in the past going back many administrations and many decades, and we do as a normal course of business."