The State Department spends more than two million dollars a month to protect him and other officials.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed on Tuesday that there is a “continuing threat” against US officials from Iran, weeks after it was revealed that the US State Department is paying millions of dollars to protect the former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of threats. “Let me say in a generic way that there is an ongoing threat against US officials both present and past,” Blinken stressed in Congress.
The State Department spends more than $2 million a month to protect Pompeo and one of his top former aides, Brian Hook, and has spent more than $13 million to date, according to the report. “We are making sure, and we will make sure for as long as it takes, that we protect our people, both the old and the old, if they are under threat,” Blinken responded after being asked about Pompeo’s protection.
Pompeo, a former secretary of state and CIA director under Donald Trump, was one of the architects of the previous administration’s approach to Tehran. “Of course, in the context of any engagement that we have directly or indirectly with the Iranians, one of the strong messages that we send them is that they have to stop attacking our people, period,” the secretary of state said.
The President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, stated in early January, two years after the death of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, who died in a US bombing in Iraq in January 2020, that the then President and Secretary of Defense of the United States United States, Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo should be prosecuted for this action.
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