US President Donald Trump has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and replaced him with the director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo
Mr Trump said his differences with Mr Tillerson came down to personal "chemistry."
The president added:
"We got along actually quite well, but we disagreed on things.
"When you look at the Iran deal, I think it's terrible. I guess he thought it was OK.
"I wanted to either break it or do something and he felt a little bit differently, so we were not really thinking the same.''
The Department of State said Mr Tillerson had not spoken to the president and was "unaware of the reason" for his firing.
However, thanking Mr Tillerson for his service on Twitter, Mr Trump said the new state secretary would do "a fantastic job".
Mr Tillerson, a former chief executive of ExxonMobil, was only appointed to the job just over a year ago.
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