Mike Pompeo: Iran’s regime spends the country’s wealth on terrorism and claims it has no money to care for its people

The U.S. Secretary of State says that while officials of the Islamic Republic claim they have no money to provide medicine for the Iranian people, we know they are spending the country’s wealth on terrorism.

Mike Pompeo made this statement in an interview with Larry O’Connor’s radio program, which took place on Thursday, April 24, and the transcript was published on the U.S. State Department website.

He said: Iranians continue to support terrorism, whether it’s Hezbollah in Lebanon or Shiite militias in Iraq, they spend all the country’s money on these dangerous activities.

The U.S. Secretary of State further emphasized that all of this is happening while the Iranian regime claims it does not have enough money to care for its own people and is demanding the lifting of sanctions.

Mike Pompeo pointed out that we know very well how officials of the Islamic Republic have seized the country’s wealth and are spending the Iranian people’s money to support terrorism.

Mr. Pompeo, on the same day in a conversation with Fox News television network, said: Iranians launched a military satellite-carrying missile. They had promised that all their satellite programs and related missile programs would be non-military, but the director of this missile launch, Hajizadeh, is the commander of the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the same person whose forces just a few weeks ago targeted a passenger airplane and killed 176 innocent people.

Source: Voice of America