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Iran’s Leadership Must Decide “If They Want Their People To Eat” – Pompeo<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Less than a week after\u00a0US Secretary of State Secretary Mike Pompeo\u00a0told Fox News Sunday<\/a>\u00a0that the “Iranians are responsible for the starvation’ of Yemeni civilians” he’s again issued hugely provocative words, telling the\u00a0BBC\u00a0during an interview that Iranian “leadership has to make a decision that they want their people to eat”<\/strong> in reference to the latest round of US sanctions.<\/p>\n

As the interview was with BBC\u00a0Persian, Pompeo’s words were immediately translated from English and broadcast to the Iranian public<\/strong>through BBC’s Persian-language publication. Pompeo repeated his theme that Iran is the world’s foremost state sponsor of terror and a “destabilizing influence” in the Middle East while ultimately blaming the country’s economic suffering on the\u00a0intransigence of the country’s leaders.<\/p>\n

Pompeo’s words came on the heels of Iran’s foreign ministry issuing a formal response to this week’s US sanctions snap back on the energy sector,\u00a0publishing a 3-minute video of FM Javad Zarif on Tuesday wherein Zarif emphasized that the sanctions mainly targeted average Iranian citizens, referencing “the economic warfare that directly targets the Iranian people.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The most contentious segment of the BBC interview was as follows:<\/p>\n

QUESTION:<\/b>\u00a0You say you are not punishing the people. You say that the sanctions are not targeting the people. But what if —<\/p>\n

SECRETARY POMPEO:<\/b>\u00a0No, they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n

QUESTION:<\/b>\u00a0But what if the sanctions hurt the Iranian people, the ordinary lives of them?<\/p>\n

SECRETARY POMPEO:<\/b>\u00a0The folks who are hurting the Iranian people are the ayatollah and Qasem Soleimani and the Iranian leadership. That\u2019s who is bringing the difficulties to Iran today.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Iran’s Leadership Must Decide “If They Want Their People To Eat” – Pompeo Less than a week after\u00a0US Secretary of State Secretary Mike Pompeo\u00a0told Fox News Sunday\u00a0that the “Iranians are responsible for the starvation’ of Yemeni civilians” he’s again issued hugely provocative words, telling the\u00a0BBC\u00a0during an interview that Iranian “leadership has to make a decision […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22876,1997,3230,441,22877,15128,827,4318],"class_list":["post-40333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bbc-persian","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-fox-news","tag-iran","tag-javid-zarif","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40334,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40333\/revisions\/40334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}