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2 March 2020

In remarks entitled “Israel: Central to the Middle East’s Future”, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described Iran as “the number one state sponsor of anti-Semitism in the world” and asserted that “the regime continues to stoke hatred of Jews to serve their own corrupt ends… the world knows that the noble Iranian people do not hate Israel, or Jews or any other religious group. It’s the bigoted, intolerant regime that does. And it is that regime – it is that regime and its views – as the reason that President Trump said so clearly that Iran will never obtain a nuclear weapon while we’re on watch”.

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