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Mike Pompeo, former US Secretary of State.
On Saturday, Mike Pompeo, the former US secretary of state, boasted of having killed his country’s government, under President Donald Trump, the Iranian military commander, Qassem Soleimani, near the Baghdad airport, mocking him.
During his participation in the activity of his Republican party in the state of Florida, and in his criticism of what he saw as the laxity of the new administration in dealing with Iran after the White House announced its desire to renegotiate the agreement with Tehran, Pompeo said, boasting and defending his government’s foreign policy, to the audience, “How many of you remember Qasim Soleimani?”, to mockingly reply, “God bless him. He has never caused problems for Americans again “, since his murder, adding,” I am proud of our fight … we have turned the static situation upside down.
Former President Donald Trump had ordered, with the approval of his Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mike Pompeo, to bomb a car carrying Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani and his colleagues near the Baghdad airport in January 2020, which That caused tension in the Middle East and the Gulf to rise to unprecedented dangerous levels that the entire region continues to experience, since then, on the brink of war.
Source: Newsweek magazine
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