Pompeo Says He Would Go to Tehran to Take Message to Iranians

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Source: Bloomberg

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said he would be willing to travel to Tehran to address the Iranian people about U.S. foreign policy as the Trump administration applies maximum pressure on the Islamic Republic to renegotiate a nuclear accord.

“Sure, if that’s the call, happily go there," Pompeo said in an interview Thursday on Bloomberg Television. “I’d like a chance to go, not do propaganda but speak the truth to the Iranian people about what it is their leadership has done and how it has harmed Iran.”

President Donald Trump has said he’s open to talks with Iran, saying the U.S. is ready to negotiate at any time for a new deal that would strengthen limits on Iran’s nuclear program and replace the multinational deal that President Barack Obama backed in 2015 and Trump abandoned last year.

Iran and the U.S. have been at loggerheads since Trump’s withdrawal from the nuclear agreement he called the “worst deal ever.”

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-25/pompeo-says-he-would-go-to-tehran-to-take-message-to-iranians?srnd=politics-vp

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July 25, 2019, 2:33 PM MDT

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Oh, yeah

Pompeo speaking his version of truth will be real popular in Iran.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Only if the Iranians promise to take him hostage.

[Maxheader]

9. Ha!!

My thoughts exactly! Just stay there, 10 hut...

[ck4829]

3. "You saw the carnage we inadvertently brought to your neighbors done in the name of 'liberation'?...

What, you don't want that here? Why are you pelting me with rotten vegetables?"

-Honest Secretary of State messages

[Harker]

4. I'm willing to bet that Iran doesn't want

the Trumpskyite spook to visit, and that their refusal will be used against them.

[Sinistrous]

5. And just how, pray tell, does Mr. Pompeo propose

to get his message of "truth" to the Iranian people? Does he think the Iranian regime is going to allow him a platform from which to badmouth their leadership?

This announcement is stupid, hollow, and naive grandstanding. Nothing but fodder for the trumpian base.

[Chemisse]

6. Anything that staves off a war is fine with me.

They can forge a new agreement, exactly like Obama's, and attribute it to Trump's miraculous dealmaking and I will just be relieved at this point.

[snort]

7. Sounds dangerous.

Please proceed.

[maxsolomon]

8. If you don't "do" Propaganda, you'll have nothing to say

Why don't you just re-label the previous "deal" with a new name that President Asshole likes, re-sign it, and let him get to bragging about it?

Fucking amateurs.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Only if he never returns