Mike Pompeo

By AFP
November 23, 2020

Abu Dhabi: US top diplomat Mike Pompeo has used a late term Middle East tour to cement Washington’s "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran, so President-elect Joe Biden can’t easily reverse it. As the Donald Trump era draws to a close, US Secretary of State Pompeo has made containing the Islamic republic a key focus of his trip and even refused to rule out a military strike in a newspaper interview published Sunday.