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US Masters Starving People…Pompeo: Iran Leaders have to Fall in Line if They Want Their People to Eat!

US Masters Starving People…Pompeo: Iran Leaders have to Fall in Line if They Want Their People to Eat!
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It’s the US game of starving people to change regimes.

Blatantly and away from any respect to any humanitarian aspect, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a BBC journalist that the Iranian "leadership has to make a decision that they want their people to eat," dropping all pretense of caring about Iranians as he touted the latest harsh sanctions.

The BBC Persian reporter, Hadi Nili, attempts to ask Pompeo what will happen if the sanctions do not have their desired effect, but Pompeo repeatedly dodges the question, repeating that it is in Iran's "best interest" to curb its "destabilizing influence" and clinging to the soundbite that the country is the primary sponsor of world terrorism.

But what if the sanctions end up hurting the people, Nili starts to ask. "No, they're not," says Pompeo, interrupting him.

Except they totally are, he all but admits a few minutes later – but it's OK, because it serves American goals.

And thus, Pompeo continues his predecessors' callous legacy of starving people in unfriendly nations and bragging about it. In January, Rex Tillerson spoke about North Korea "ghost ships" washing ashore in Japan, most of their crews dead after desperately going fishing without enough fuel for the return trip. "We are getting a lot of evidence that these [sanctions] are really starting to hurt," he told Condoleezza Rice, herself no slouch when it comes to disdaining the fate of civilians in war zones.

In response, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif responded on twitter.

You know what @SecPompeo? It's the Yemenis themselves who're responsible for famine they're facing. They should've simply allowed your butcher clients—who spend billions on bombing school buses & "millions to mitigate this risk"--to annihilate them w/o resisting. #HaveYouNoShame

The head of the Iranian diplomacy said: “Just as with Yemen, @SecPompeo blames Iran for unlawful US sanctions preventing Iranians’ access to financial services for food and medicine.  Naturally, we will provide them for our people in spite of US efforts. But US is accountable for crimes against humanity re Iran & Yemen.”

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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