Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem yesterday. They both promised during a joint press briefing that the U.S. will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, or other modern weapons for that matter. Netanyahu gushed with praise to Pompeo especially for the fact of the U.S. attempt to snap back UN sanctions against Iran. “[Y]ou have stood up to Iran’s aggression and triggered the snapback sanctions,” he told Pompeo. “And we’ve seen Iran, since the JCPOA was concluded, emerging from its cage and devouring one country after another, targeting countries with rockets, with terrorism, with pillage and plunder and murder — murder — all over the Middle East and even beyond the Middle East, including into your hemisphere.”
Pompeo, for his part, declared that “President Trump made clear: Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. And we are determined to use every tool that we have to ensure that they can’t get access to high-end weapon systems, air defense systems.” (The Iranian Defense Minister was in Moscow examining the Russian S-400 as Pompeo was speaking.)
