Iran's Rouhani: Khashoggi murder unthinkable "without US backing"

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"I don't think that any country would dare do such a thing without US backing," Rouhani said.

TEHRAN (AFP) - Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s "heinous murder" would have been unthinkable "without US backing," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday.

"I don’t think that any country would dare do such a thing without US backing," Rouhani said in remarks to cabinet broadcast on state television.