CIA director sent warning to Iran over threatened US interests in Iraq

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

CIA director sent warning to Iran over threatened US interests in Iraq

Associated Press in Simi Valley, California
Sunday 3 December 2017 15.03 GMT

CIA director Mike Pompeo said on Saturday he sent a letter to a top Iranian military official warning him that the US would hold Tehran accountable for any attacks it conducted on US interests in Iraq.

Pompeo, who has voiced staunch opposition to Iran and was this week reported to be under consideration to become secretary of state, said he sent the letter to Gen Qassem Soleimani, a leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and elite Quds Force, but the general didn’t read it.

“I sent a note. I sent it because he had indicated that forces under his control might in fact threaten US interests in Iraq,” Pompeo said at a defense forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute in Simi Valley, California. “He refused to open the letter – didn’t break my heart to be honest with you.

“What we were communicating to him in that letter was that we will hold he and Iran accountable ... and we wanted to make sure that he and the leadership of Iran understood that in a way that was crystal clear.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/03/cia-director-sent-warning-to-iran-over-threatened-us-interests-in-iraq

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Exxon and Royal Dutch Shell need

more of our Marine's to guard their Oil Wells.

[Iliyah]

2. Who are going to attack first?

[Fred Sanders]

3. Trump Emergency! All hands on deck! Commence Operation Distraction and Warmongering.

You, #1 climate change denier Pompous, send a sternly worded letter to someone important in Iran because... whatever. Make something up. Do not mention oil.