Pompeo Presents Iran With Massive List Of Demands They Won't Follow, Puts U.S. On War Footing

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
May. 22, 2018

Speaking at the Heritage Foundation on Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unveiled a massive list of demands for Iran -- which there is zero chance they will comply with -- and threatened to impose the "strongest sanctions in history" if they refuse to follow along.

From RT:

Tehran will struggle to “keep its economy alive” if it does not comply with a list of 12 US demands, including Iranian withdrawal from Syria, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed on Monday.

Speaking at the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing Washington think tank, Pompeo laid out a list of 12 “basic requirements” for Iran. The demands call on Iran to withdraw from Syria, "release all US citizens," end support for Houthi rebels in Yemen, stop “enrichment" of uranium, and promise never to process plutonium. Iran must also allow "unqualified access to all nuclear sites throughout the country," Pompeo said.

He promised that the US would impose the "strongest sanctions in history" if Iran failed to comply with these demands.

Pompeo said that “the sting of sanctions will be painful” and Iran will struggle to “keep its economy alive” if Tehran “does not change its course from the unacceptable and unproductive path it has chosen.”

“Thanks to our colleagues at the Department of Treasury, sanctions are going back in full effect and new ones are coming … These will indeed end up being the strongest sanctions in history,” Pompeo said.

The secretary of state also pledged that the US "will track down Iranian operatives and their Hezbollah proxies operating around the world, and we will crush them. Iran will never again have carte blanche to dominate the Middle East."

Speaking directly to the Iranian people, Pompeo claimed that “President [Hassan] Rouhani and Foreign Minister [Javad] Zarif… are your elected leaders. Are they not the most responsible for your economic struggles?" He added: “The United States believes you deserve better.”

Here's a quick run down:

Pompeo also suggested we need to overthrow their government to impose feminism:

.@SecPompeo: As seen from the hijab protests, the brutal men of the regime seem to be particularly terrified by Iranian women who are demanding their rights. As human beings with inherent dignity & inalienable rights, the women of #Iran deserve same freedoms the men of Iran have. pic.twitter.com/mqbE8vPwpv
— Department of State (@StateDept) May 21, 2018

State Department spokesman Heather Nauert suggested the same:

>The US must invade Iran to impose feminism! pic.twitter.com/ldQUO6vGN1
— Chris Menahan 🔹 (@infolibnews) May 21, 2018

Perhaps the eventual future justification for their invasion will be that Iran doesn't have gay marriage or transgender bathrooms.

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