US State Department reveals classified records about Iran's association with Al Qaeda

And US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo intends to use the intelligence, which he discloses for the first time, to clarify the links between Iran and al-Qaeda, according to Al-Arabiya, according to Reuters.

And Pompeo, writing earlier through his official account on "Twitter", that the United States lifted the confidentiality of documents related to Iran's use of chemical weapons and its trade during the "Libya - Chad" war.

In its report, the Foreign Ministry accused Iran of supplying the government of former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi with chemical weapons during the Libyan-Chadian war in the 1980s, and after the fall of Gaddafi, chemical weapons were discovered with writings in the Persian language.

The New York Times said in a news item last November that Abo Mohammad al-Masri, accused of helping to plot the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was killed by Israeli agents in Iran, which Tehran denied, saying that it was There are no "terrorists" from al Qaeda on its soil.

Relations between Tehran and Washington have deteriorated since 2018 when Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal that was reached during the administration of former US President Barack Obama in 2015, which imposed severe restrictions on Tehran's nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of sanctions.

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