The Gov­ern­ment has come out in full sup­port of the Unit­ed States at­tack on Iran yes­ter­day, which, ac­cord­ing to Is­rael and US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, left Iran’s Supreme Leader dead.

In a state­ment is­sued af­ter 8 pm last evening from the Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs, it said, “The Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs wish­es to ex­press its sup­port for the con­tin­ued ac­tions of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca aimed at pre­vent­ing op­pres­sive regimes from ac­quir­ing nu­clear weapons ca­pa­bil­i­ties that would jeop­ar­dise in­ter­na­tion­al peace and se­cu­ri­ty. The pro­lif­er­a­tion of such weapons is a grave threat to the glob­al com­mu­ni­ty.”

That state­ment came four hours af­ter one was first post­ed on Face­book around 4 pm by the min­istry, and then re­tract­ed. That post was left up for at least an hour.