U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday that Washington would not tolerate any Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election in 2020.
Speaking at a news conference after holding talks with Lavrov in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, Pompeo said he had made it clear to Russia that there could be no repeat of election interference of the kind Washington accuses Moscow of undertaking in the 2016 presidential election.
Russia denies the allegation it meddled in that election.
Pompeo also said that the United States wants to avoid war with Iran as tensions rise between the two countries.
He said that "we fundamentally don't seek a war with Iran."
