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Pompeo further describes US policy on Iran

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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...