Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif issued a statement lashing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his recent comments on the Yemen War. Discussing the US-backed Saudi invasion of Yemen, Pompeo declared Iran to be to blame for the death and destruction in the country.
Asking of Pompeo “have you no shame?”, Zarif mocked Pompeo’s praise for the Saudis for “providing millions and millions of dollars of humanitarian relief” to Yemen, saying America’s “butcher clients” were spending billions of dollars bombing school buses.
Pompeo had been heavily critical of the Iranians for doing nothing to “prevent the starvation” in Yemen. The reality, of course, is that the Saudis are blocking Yemen in a US-backed naval operation, and have seized any Iranian ships that get anywhere near the Yemeni coast.
Zarif’s comments aside, Pompeo’s whole narrative blaming Iran is just puzzling, and seem built wholly around Saudi allegations that Iran is secretly in league with the Shi’ite Houthis who are resisting their invasion. In practice, the Houthis have never had more than nominal ties with Iran, and Iranians statements of public support seem mostly built on criticizing the Saudis, whose protracted invasion of Yemen has gotten well out of hand.
“Pompeo’s whole narrative blaming Iran is just puzzling”
Is it so hard to just say “a big lie” instead of puzzling?!!! Mr.Jason
Pompeo graduated first in his class from West Point, and yet when I look at him…
I must confess that, despite the notion that “You can’t judge a book by its cover”, I always take a strong first “judgment” of a person by their appearances (and verbal “tone”): facial characteristics, posture, body language, and verbal style (as distinguished from content).
There are forty-seven muscles in the human face, and they preserve a record of the person’s emotional history. For people skilled in reading those signs — I’m not one of them — a person’s nature can be seen right there, written on their face. Think Brennan, Clapper, Hayden, Schiff, Swallwell, Nadler, McConnel, Hilary Clinton, and Lindsey Graham. And Trump.
Pompeo looks like a monster.
YMMV.
You forgot Obama.
listening to Obama you might believe he loved every body and was telling the truth .
And Adolph Hitler was hansom
“Pompeo had been heavily critical of the Iranians for doing nothing to “prevent the starvation” in Yemen.”
He’s right in a way. The Iranians would be preventing the starvation if they where actually arming the Houthis trying to stop it.
I’m not sure about this, at least military advisors ftom lebanon and iran might be found on trainingcamps, instructing in light combat guerilla warfare
“Might”? Show me the proof.
I wish I believed in karma, but read and understood Twains’ “The Bad Little Boy” too young.
Pompass is typical of the people the USA uses as “diplomats” since the US finds diplomacy a useless tool when they have vast forces, lots of spending and no idea how to interact with normal human beings who want to run their own countries in peace.