Pompeo Speech Marks Start Of Broader Campaign For Iran Regime-Change
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Mon, 07/23/2018
Here we go again… it seems the moment one major theater of war is winding down (Syria) another could immediately take its place.
President Trump’s late Sunday evening all caps tweet warning of “consequences the likes of which few have ever suffered before” if Hassan Rouhani continues threatening America came on the heels of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s “Supporting Iranian Voices” event held at the Reagan library in California in Simi Valley.
As we noted not only did Pompeo announce plans for a US-sponsored 24/7 Farsi-language channel to combat Tehran’s “fake news” while promising to back what he described as “the long-ignored voice of the Iranian people” — but he likened Iran’s clerical and military leadership to an elite “mafia” who’ve amassed vast sums of wealth while allowing their people to starve.
“The level of corruption and wealth among regime leaders shows that Iran is run by something that resembles the mafia more than a government,” Pompeo said.
At a moment the US prepares to ramp up economic sanctions on Tehran after withdrawing from the Iran deal while pressuring European countries to do the same, Pompeo said the country’s religious leaders were “hypocritical holy men” and added the regime “has been a nightmare for the Iranian people”.
The Secretary of State said in reference to recent economic protests that spread through major cities earlier this summer, and larger political protests that took hold in January: “And the United States under President Trump will not stay silent either. In light of these protests and 40 years of regime tyranny, I have a message for the people of Iran: the United States hears you. The United States supports you. The United States is with you.”
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