Pompeo Presses Europe To Get Tough On Iran

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) speaks during a meeting with North Korea's director of the United Front Department, Kim Yong Chol (R-back to camera) at the Park Hwa Guest House in Pyongyang on July 6, 2018. - P... US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) speaks during a meeting with North Korea's director of the United Front Department, Kim Yong Chol (R-back to camera) at the Park Hwa Guest House in Pyongyang on July 6, 2018. - Pompeo arrived in Pyongyang on July 6 to press Kim Jong Un for a more detailed commitment to denuclearisation following the North Korean leader's historic summit with President Donald Trump. (Photo by Andrew Harnik / POOL / AFP) (Photo credit should read ANDREW HARNIK/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is pressing European nations to get tough on Iran by cutting off all funding the country may use to foment instability in the Middle East and beyond.

Pompeo was meeting on Thursday with European officials in Brussels following a summit of NATO leaders to make the case for clamping down on Iranian “terrorism and proxy wars.” He called on America’s partners and allies to join a U.S.-led economic pressure campaign against Tehran that began in earnest after President Donald Trump withdrew from the landmark Iran nuclear deal in May.

Pompeo said in a tweet that “there’s no telling” when Iran could act “in one of our countries next” and posted a map that accused Iran of sponsoring 11 terrorist attacks in Europe since 1978.

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  1. Wow no wonder he so big, he’s got all kinds of shit up his ass.

  2. Pompeo Presses Europe To Get Tough On Iran

    I guess Russia is now just a cuddly teddybear?

  3. Fuck Off, that is all…

  4. Secretary Pompeo is already in Europe. Why don’t the European nations provide him with a first class tour of the International Criminal Court in The Hague? Just for future reference.

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