Conference plan draws ire

TEHRAN, Iran — Angered by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s announcement that Poland will host an international conference on Iran in midfebruary, Iranian authorities on Sunday summoned Warsaw’s top diplomat in the country and called off a Polish film festival.

The moves followed a tweet by Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who denounced the upcoming summit as America’s anti-iran “circus.”

Iran said in a statement provided to the official IRNA news agency that if the summit goes ahead, Iran will resort to unspecified “counter-action” toward Poland.