Pompeo: We Will Not Allow Iran to Hide Behind Its Proxy Forces

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Washington Free Beacon

Nic Rowan
May 21, 2019

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a Tuesday interview that the United States will not allow Iran "to hide behind its proxy forces" in its offenses against American interests in the Middle East.

"We've made clear that we will not allow Iran to hide behind its proxy forces," Pompeo said on the Hugh Hewitt show. "But if American interests are attacked, whether by Iran directly or through its proxy forces, we will respond in an appropriate way against Iran."

Pompeo said that the main threat that Iran poses to the United States in the region is its "underwriting of these proxy forces." This includes any moves by Iran to destabilize the United States's anti-Iran strategy, Pompeo told Hewitt.

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