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False: A Zimbabwe minister sent a missive to the United States with a warning to refrain from targeting Iran.

By: Annie Priya

May 13 2020

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False: A Zimbabwe minister sent a missive to the United States with a warning to refrain from targeting Iran.

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The Verdict False

The tweet claiming as such comes from a fake ZBC News Online Twitter account and there are no such official statements from Zimbabwe.

The tweet claiming as such comes from a fake ZBC News Online Twitter account and there are no such official statements from Zimbabwe.The tweet stating that Zimbabwe's defence ministers issued a warning to the United States to step back from its dispute with Iran was posted by the account ZBC News Online (Twitter handle: zbcnewsonline_). This is a fake Twitter account created in December 2019 and does not represent the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation. The real ZBC News Online Twitter account (Twitter handle: @ZBCNewsonline) created in July 2012 with over 270,000 followers has a photograph of the ruins of Great Zimbabwe in its header, which appears on its website. No official statements have been released which corroborate this claim.

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