Trump will finish the Ayatollahs in Iran, says Mike Pompeo
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Exclusive: Trump’s former secretary of state and foreign policy chief told an Iranian pro-democracy conference in Paris that the change of administration in Washington will mark an end to the current regime in Tehran. The “rotten to the core” Khamenei regime is a “paper tiger” whose time is up, Mike Pompeo has told Iranians campaigning for democracy.
Mr Pompeo, a former secretary of state under president-elect Donald Trump, made the comments while addressing a conference held by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Paris just ahead of his former boss being inaugurated as US president on 20 January.
It comes as Trump has already outlined a belicose new foreign policy with a warning to Tehran’s Hamas allies that the US will take severe action against Gaza if hostages are not released bythe time he reenters the White House. In his speech, he claimed that President Trump will be “bringing back the maximum pressure campaign” and it will be “the beginning of the end” for the despotic and evil regime.
He promised that “the regime’s end is in reach” as it continues to suffer from “dysfunction of the highest order”. He condemned the nature of the regime, explaining how “the ayatollah’s cronies care more about fomenting war against their enemies and their radical theology than they do about basic sustenance for their own people.”.
Pointing to the utter failure Iran’s proxy forces during 2024, he claimed that “all the regime's bluster about the extent of its power and influence has been revealed for what you all knew it was, a grand lie… The Ayatollah, the Wizard in Iran, has now been revealed for what he truly is, a corrupt character who only rules by fear and terror.”.
