Iranian social media activists have launched a Twitter and Instagram hashtag calling on American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iran. Iranians have taken to the social networking services, venting their anger at the American government trying to frame domestic economic dissatisfaction as a sign for regime change […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed over phone cooperation in solving the crisis in Syria. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in statement on Saturday that Lavrov and Pompeo discussed during the call initiated by the US side the situation in Syria and means of cooperation to deliver humanitarian […]

Not long after laying waste a landmark nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 (the U.S., UK, France, China, Russia, and Germany), the Trump administration just threatened Iran with military action if it goes beyond the nuclear limits of the deal. The United States’ top diplomat Mike Pompeo on Saturday warned Iran not to, as […]

The 12 conditions put forth for Iran by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are a nonstarter, a former advisor at the U.S. Department of State believes. “These are nonnegotiable; I don’t see Iran agreeing to them. If Iran agreed to them, there wouldn’t be a whole lot to negotiate,” Denis Jat told the Islamic […]

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi has dismissed the recent remarks by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Tehran must stop enriching uranium and import the material instead. Speaking to Iranian media on Saturday, Ghasemi said, “we welcome Mr. Pompeo to the world of foreign policy and diplomacy. But I believe he has entered […]

Marvin Zonis, Professor of international political economy believes that the Pompeo speech was an exercise in idiocy that only provides Trump with excuse to pressure the government in Iran in any way possible to bring about regime change in Iran. The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo laid out the Trump administration’s new strategy for […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri said on Tuesday that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is lagging 40 years behind the time, pointing to the 1979 Islamic Revolution as a backlash against foreign influence. On Monday, Pompeo said the U.S. will aim to “crush” Iran with economic and military pressure unless it changes […]

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described US diplomacy as “sham” and said the White House was repeating “the same wrong choices” after the US Secretary of State said Washington will increase its financial pressure on Iran by a series of new sanctions. “US diplomacy sham is merely a regression to old habits: imprisoned by […]

TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani reacted strongly to the hostile remarks against Iran by new U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, saying, “Who are you who want to decide for Iran and the world”. Pompeo, who was CIA chief until he was confirmed as secretary of state  on April 26, said in a speech on […]

TEHRAN – After Trump announced U.S. pullout from the 2015 nuclear deal (JCPOA) on May 8, his new secretary of state Mike Pompeo on Monday set out Washington’s plan B which looked more like a declaration of war rather that a new roadmap. Pompeo said the U.S. will apply economic and military pressure against Iran […]