Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the return to office of President-elect Donald Trump will be the “beginning of the end” for the Iranian regime.
In a speech in Paris on Jan. 9 to the National Council of the Resistance of Iran, a coalition of overseas Iranian opposition groups, Pompeo said he was confident Trump would reinstate the “maximum pressure” strategy he exerted during his first administration.
“It will be the beginning of the end … for the malign regime,” he said.
Pompeo, 61, pointed out that he did not speak for the Trump administration but that “it is the time for optimism for the people of Iran.
“I’ve seen this past year and it has been demonstrated, the regime is undoubtedly at its weakest point,” he said, adding that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has “no prayer, no hope, no dream, even of delivering prosperity to the Iranian people.” […]
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