U.S. defends offering condolences after Iranian president’s death

The White House is defending the U-S decision to send official condolences after the death of Iran’s president. National Security spokesman John Kirby says it’s common for the United States to offer official condolences, even to adversarial governments. But Kirby makes clear the former Iranian president was a bad actor “with a lot of blood on his hands.” The State Department emphasized American “support for the Iranian people and their struggle for human rights and fundamental freedoms.”