Pompeo Criticizes Democrats For Meeting With Iranian Foreign Minister

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

WASHINGTON (JNS) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rebuked a group of Democratic senators on Tuesday who reportedly met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif last week on the sidelines of the annual Munich Security Conference.

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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) was one senator who met with Zarif, reported The Federalist.

Speaking to reporters during his tour through Africa, Pompeo said that Zarif was sanctioned by the United States—a move that occurred in July.

“He’s the foreign minister for a country that shot down an airliner and has yet to turn over the black boxes,” said Pompeo, referencing Tehran’s shooting down of a commercial airliner on Jan. 8, resulting in the deaths of 176 passengers. “This is the foreign minister of a country that killed an American on December 27. This is the foreign minister of a country that is the world’s largest state sponsor of terror and the world’s largest sponsor of anti-Semitism.”

If the Democratic senators had the meeting, said Pompeo, “I don’t know what they said. I hope they were reinforcing America’s foreign policy, not their own.”

U.S. State Department officials said they had no role in, nor approved of, the meeting, reported The Washington Free Beacon.


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Democrats support America's enemies
Democrats support America's enemies
4 years ago

Treasonous scum led by Tehran Nancy.

WACKOS
WACKOS
4 years ago

Seems like the Dems like meeting with our enemies. Are the Dems trying to influence an election?

lipa99
lipa99
4 years ago

IMPEACH them NOW

elyeh
elyeh
4 years ago

Meeting with Iran was Murphy of Conn, a “trustworthy” Democrats who would never break the law, such as the Logan Act which prohibits American citizens from negotiating with foreign powers. Strangely, Murphy previously criticized others based on this very law.

ANON21
ANON21
4 years ago

Let them meet and talk and have lunch dinner and whatever else. They can even plan trumps impeachment together I don’t care. Bottom line trump makes the decisions around here not these dumb as a doorknob politicians

Moishi
Moishi
4 years ago

But the republicans having peace talks with the Taliban IS OK, right? & I always thought that we don’t FARHANDL with terrorists, what a joke,
Or we can call this FAKE NEWS as always is the case when our potus does something weird

HeshyEmes
4 years ago

Uhm… Moishi, Trump is the President, and the Constitution grants him the right to set foreign policy. The Democratic Senators have no say in setting foreign policy, and are undermining the United States by giving succor to the enemy. Horsehead (Kerry) is Iran’s biggest supporter, and an anti-semite who loved helping Obama stick it to acheinu in Eretz Yisroel.