Pompeo: ‘Fantasy' to think Iran poses no threat to US
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dismissed the notion that Iran is not a threat to the U.S., calling it a 'fantasy.'
Israel launched an attack Thursday night, striking Iran's nuclear facilities and killing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps chief and other high-status commanders. Iran retaliated with a swarm of drones, which Israel's Iron Dome is shooting down.
'Iran has killed hundreds of American troops. It tried to assassinate an ambassador in D.C. It tried to kill President Trump. Its leaders chant death to America. We must never let this terrorist regime get a nuclear weapon,' Pompeo wrote Friday on social platform X.
Through its involvement in the war in Iraq, the Pentagon confirmed the deaths of 603 U.S. service members killed by Iranian-backed militias.
In November, Manhattan prosecutors charged Iranian Farhad Shakeri of murder-for-hire in an attempt to assassinate Trump. And in 2020, the Iranian government was accused of plotting an assassination of a diplomat in Washington, D.C., in retaliation for the killing of Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian military general.
After weeks of meetings, Iran pulled out of negotiations with U.S. officials planned for Sunday in Oman over its nuclear program. Trump posted on Truth Social, 'Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iran Empire.'
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill, on both sides of the aisle, have expressed support for Israel and agree that Iran's nuclear program must be terminated.
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