The United States’ re-entry in the Iran nuclear deal would make the Middle East “less stable” and the region “less secure,” former secretary of state Mike Pompeo warned on Sunday.
“The Iranians understand strength, they understand power. They understand resolve. We demonstrated that,” Pompeo said in a radio interview on The Cat's Roundtable on WABC 770 AM-N.Y.
He was discussing the former Trump administration approach to Iran. “And when we did, the Iranians backed down.”
Former President Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, in May 2018.
“We didn’t get all the way to where we would’ve hoped we could get in respect to getting Iran to stand down and enter an agreement that would’ve actually avoided them having a nuclear weapon, but we made an awful lot of progress,” he explained.
