Pompeo further describes US policy on Iran

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Wednesday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee was yet another stage where US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo further defined US policy vis-à-vis Iran’s regime and how the Iranian people oppose the mullahs’ policies.
“There is an enormous economic challenge inside of Iran today. It’s an economic structure that simply doesn’t work. When you’re a country of that scale that foments terror through the Lebanese Hezbollah, through Shiite militias in Iraq, into Yemen, conducts assassination attempts in European countries, provides enormous support for Assad outside of Lebanese Hezbollah in Syria, that’s expensive and I think the Iranian people are beginning to see that that’s not the model that they want. The Iranian expansionism that the supreme leader and Qassem Suleimani so favor is not what they’re looking for. I think you’re beginning to see the economic impact combined with understandings inside of Iran of the kleptocracy that it is, leading to fundamental decisions that the Iranian people will ultimately have to make,” Sec. Pompeo explain.
When asked about the acceleration of the Iranian people’s protests against the regime in the past six months, Pompeo agreed and explained how this has been a far longer struggle.
“I think it’s been going on longer than that,” agreeing with asking senator that it is a fair statement to say these protests have accelerated significantly in the past six months.
On nuclear proliferation Sec. Pompeo once again emphasized US policy opposing such capabilities for Iran and North Korea.
“We want neither Iran nor North Korea to have the capacity to proliferate nuclear weapons, to enrich uranium or build their own weapons program,” he said.
“The question President Trump faced was that was the JCPOA good enough? He concluded it wasn’t remotely good enough. I think he said it was one of the worse deals in history. He concluded we would find ourselves in a better place with an opportunity to revisit all of these issues. Not just the nuclear portfolio but the missile program. Their malign activity around the world… We have others who believe that this was the right decision, too… There are a number of folks who are beginning to coalesce around an understanding of how we can appropriately respond to Iran to take down the nuclear risk to the US as well as their other malign activities,” Sec. Pompeo added.

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