Mike Pompeo just lied to the American people and raised the risk of conflict with Iran — because he’s already competing in the 2024 (Miriam) Adelson primary for president.
The outgoing Secretary of State dishonestly said today that al-Qaeda, the group that attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, was now based in Tehran and is plotting to attack the United States and “western targets” from there. Pompeo said:
[T]he Islamic Republic of Iran has given a new operational headquarters to al-Qa’ida, the terrorist network with more American blood on its hands than any other. For al-Qa’ida, Iran is the new home base. Tehran gives sanctuary to the terror group’s senior leaders as they plan attacks against America and our allies. Indeed, since 2015, Tehran has allowed al-Qa’ida figures in the country to freely communicate with other al-Qa’ida members and perform many functions that were previously directed from Afghanistan and Pakistan, including authorization for attacks, propaganda, and fundraising.
Even if there is no outright conflict with Iran, Pompeo is doing his utmost to poison relations between the U.S. and Tehran so that there is no chance of Joe Biden reinvigorating the Iran deal.
Secretaries of State can be impeached, and if the U.S. Congress were not busy with other matters Pompeo’s deceitful statement should qualify him for consideration.
The National Iranian American Council, which is no friend to the regime in Iran, immediately issued a response challenging Pompeo’s assertion, noting
. . .the American people still remember the consequences of falling for Dick Cheney’s lie that Saddam Hussein was harboring al-Qaeda terrorists that were plotting against the United States.
In 2018, Barbara Slavin of the Atlantic Council explained that a study of documents retrieved during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan showed that “Iran and al-Qaeda had a largely hostile relationship and the Sunni jihadi group saw Shiite Iran as a ‘postponed enemy.’”
Pompeo knows better, but his desire to be president won out. He plotted his move while the billionaire mega-donor Sheldon Adelson was still alive, but there’s no reason to think that Adelson’s widow, Miriam, an Israeli citizen, will cut off the spigot to Republican candidates who advocate extreme pro-Israel measures. Toward the top of the Adelson family wish-list was continued confrontation with Iran; Adelson himself famously said that the U.S. should fire an “atomic weapon” at Tehran instead of negotiating.
A footnote to the breaking news: Politico reporter Meridith McGraw tweeted out last night that she spotted Pompeo and the head of Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, in a Washington, D.C., restaurant. But the mainstream media accounts of Pompeo’s dishonest statement will surely downplay the Israel angle, or leave it out entirely.
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“[t]he terrorist network with more American blood on its hands than any other.”
Wouldn’t that be the Donald J. Trump administration (including Plump Pompeo), whose incompetence, ignorance, and indifference is responsible for 390,000 American deaths (and counting).
Harking back to my Sunday school lessons where I learned that lying was not part of a Christian life, it appears Mendacious Mike would not have been teaching the same lesson in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church where he served as a local church deacon and taught Sunday school.
Clearly a shameless liar, is Mike Pompeo a threat to the national security of the US?
“was now based in Tehran”
The eternal sunni/shia conflict resolved? Cool.
The daughter of Sulemani speaks to the widows of Quds Force soldiers who died in Syria:
“The wives of Múdafeīn Haram, known colloquially as the Holy Shrine Defenders, a term recently coined to recognize the resistance fronts fighting in Syria and Iraq, identify Qasem Soleimani as the “definite dividing line between vice and virtue,” says Zahra, whose husband was serving with the Quds Force and was martyred in Syria in 2014.
“General Soleimani was a real strategist. Nevertheless, what makes us honored to serve him was not his indisputable military capability alone.” Having lost her spouse in 2015 in Iraq, Mina puts it thusly: “I sincerely aspire to sacrifice myself and my children, like their father, on Soleimani’s path of defending human dignity. He could not tolerate American-backed terrorists butchering innocent women and children in deadly conditions, forcing indignity upon them.” ”
Sacrifice …not an American concept, to be free…we want to be we, we don’t want to be like you.
https://bsnews.info/the-legacy-of-general-qassem-solemaini-a-womans-perspective/