Pompeo to deliver major speech on Iran

WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan24) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will deliver a major speech on Iran at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Sunday.

Pompeo’s remarks are titled, “Supporting Iranian Voices,” and he will give the speech in California, where Reagan was governor for eight years, before becoming America’s 40th president.
The state is home to America’s largest community of Iranian immigrants. Some 250,000 Iranian-Americans live there.

A senior State Department official who previewed Pompeo’s speech for journalists on Thursday explained that the Secretary of State would expose “some of the corruption” of the Iranian regime, the terrorism that it has backed around the world, and “the brutal repression at home.”

Tehran has used the relief from sanctions that it enjoyed following the Iranian nuclear deal not to advance the well-being of its own citizens, but to aggressively promote its regional influence, this official explained.

“Iran has spent over $16 billion supporting Assad and its proxies in Iraq and in Yemen,” he said.

That statement alone is significant as a reflection of US policy. Until Pompeo became Secretary of State in April, the State Department did not regularly acknowledge that Iranian influence in Iraq was a serious problem.

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