US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said today (Tuesday) that the Islamic terrorist organization al-Qaeda has bases in Iran, and that two of its leaders are in Iran.
Pompeo claimed that the United States was having a hard time taking action against the terrorist organization because it was “well dug” in Iran. The secretary of state has announced sanctions on three key figures in al-Qaeda, which are currently in Iran, and on two senior members of the Kurdish faction of the terrorist organization, which apparently operates from Iranian Kurdistan.
“We will declare BDS an antisemitic movement”: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement in Jerusalem // Archive photo: GPO
Pompeo has announced a $ 7 million prize for anyone who presents information that would lead to the capture of Muhammad Abbata, known as Adbadel Rahman al-Mugrabi.
The presence of the Sunni terrorist organization is not self-evident in Shiite Iran, which is waging an open war on other Sunni organizations such as ISIS and rebel groups in Syria. A source within the American intelligence agencies told Reuters that the Iranians had not shown openness to al-Qaeda in the past and that Tehran’s policy change was worrying.
Iranian Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif responded on the social network Twitter to Pompeo’s remarks. He claimed that these were “fabrications” and “lies of war-mongers.”