Pompeo’s desperate Iran claims


This is not the first time, however, the hawkish US diplomat claimed that Iran was forming an axis of evil with Al Qaeda. And just like back then, Pompeo can't back these claims with evidence. — AFP

A maximum pressure campaign against the Biden administration?

A DESPERATE Mike Pompeo unconvincingly claiming,"Al-Qaeda has a new home base. It is the Islamic Republic of Iran," in a recent speech at the US National Press Club, looks like a frantic last-ditch attempt by the outgoing US administration to further botch up US's relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran. And the fact that the US Secretary of State could not substantiate the claims only reveal their hollow, fickle base.

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