According to a report from Reuters, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will give a speech on Tuesday where he is expected to accuse Iran of sheltering al-Qaeda leaders, despite skepticism within Congress and US intelligence agencies that the claims are valid.
Iran hawks have been claiming that Tehran has ties to al-Qaeda for years, but the claims have never been proven. A former US intelligence official told Reuters that Iran was never friendly with al-Qaeda before or after 9/11, and that “any claims of current cooperation should be viewed warily.”
Despite the doubt, Pompeo is expected to make the accusation anyway, as he is determined to ramp up the pressure on Iran as much as possible before Joe Biden’s inauguration. Pompeo tends to hurl accusations at Iran, whether there is evidence or not.
Sources familiar with Pompeo’s speech told Reuters that the secretary of state might share details of an Israeli assassination of an al-Qaeda leader in Iran that supposedly took place in August.
In November, The New York Times reported that Abu Muhammad al-Masri, who the Times said was al-Qaeda’s second in command, was killed in Iran by Israel at the behest of the US. Iran immediately denied the report, and questions arose about whether or not al-Masri could have been in Iran at the time.
The US sheltered al Qaeda. Pompeo did. In Syria, the US used al Qaeda as it had once used bin Laden in Afghanistan.
is the lying pimp this stupid?
A last desperate move by a fat piece of lard
Syria Iraq and Iran have been shooting Al Qaeda on sight for 20 years.
It was the CIA that trained funded and Supported them against Russia in Afghanistan.
This shit again? How stupid do they think even the American public is?
Fairly stupid based off voting trends for at least the last 50yrs. There’s a long list of lies which the public swallows without question…
There were Israeli flags at the Capitol demonstrations, last Wednesday. Seems that White Power demonstrators associate themselves with Israeli cruelty to the brown Palestinians. Birds of a feather…….
He will say anything he’s paid to say. That’s why Trump installed him.
The Iran bashing loop. Time for the al Qaeda connection again.
He’s worse than Bolton.
Pompass lining up his next fact free, truth free gig with one of the most vile “think: tanks, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) (sic); FDD virolent anti-Iran, always strongly pro-israel.