US Senator Rick Scott on Tuesday sharply criticised Pakistan's role in the US-Iran peace deal, accusing Islamabad of hypocrisy after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif attended the funeral of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran.
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In a post on X, Scott questioned Pakistan's credibility as a mediator, writing: "We need to remember who Pakistan really is in the middle of all this. We’re talking about a country where bin Laden hid out for a decade, where they selectively enforce lopsided blasphemy laws to persecute Christians, and where the Prime Minister just praised the genocidal mass murdering tyrant that used to run Iran."
He added, "They’re no better qualified to 'mediate' this than the Hamas-harboring Qataris. Islamabad should take note; we’re watching closely."
