Trump administration denounces CNN for airing Iran’s supreme leader’s speech

The Trump administration denounced CNN on Thursday for airing a portion of Iran’s new supreme leader’s public statement, the Associated Press writes.

The White House said on social media that “fake news CNN just aired four straight minutes of uninterrupted Iranian state TV, run by the same psychotic and murderous regime that prided itself on brutally slaughtering Americans for 47 years.”

In response to the White House, CNN stated that Sky News and Al Jazeera also showed portions of the ayatollah’s statement live.

Two days earlier, White House communications director Steven Cheung took issue with CNN anchor Erin Burnett’s interview with Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian nuclear negotiator.