.@SecPompeo is *refusing* to testify before @HouseForeign, the committee that oversees the State Department, about the escalation with Iran.
Since the administration is not allowing us to do our constitutional oversight, I will share what I would have asked him.
Since the administration is not allowing us to do our constitutional oversight, I will share what I would have asked him.
The President has repeatedly said he is looking for a deal with Iran after he tore up the JCPOA.
Why, after leaving the JCPOA, after maximum pressure, after killing Soleimani, after threatening to bomb cultural sites, would the Iranians be more likely to agree to a new deal?
Why, after leaving the JCPOA, after maximum pressure, after killing Soleimani, after threatening to bomb cultural sites, would the Iranians be more likely to agree to a new deal?
The President has been tweeting in Farsi all weekend, repeating a message you have often given, which is that we are standing with the Iranian people.
In what way is banning Iranians from entering the United States standing with them?
In what way is banning Iranians from entering the United States standing with them?
In what way is preventing the import of foreign medicine to cancer patients in Iran standing with them?
In what way is threatening to bomb Persian cultural heritage sites standing with Iranians?
In what way is threatening to bomb Persian cultural heritage sites standing with Iranians?
I presume you say we stand with the Iranian people because we oppose the regime’s crackdown on human rights, women’s rights, and democracy. I agree.
Do we stand with the Saudi people who face similar oppression from their government?
Do we stand with the Saudi people who face similar oppression from their government?
Do we stand with the Egyptians who face oppression?
Do we stand with Indian Muslims who face oppression?
Do we stand with Hondurans, Afro-Brazilians and Brazilian indigenous people, Filipinos, and Cameroonians?
Do we stand with Indian Muslims who face oppression?
Do we stand with Hondurans, Afro-Brazilians and Brazilian indigenous people, Filipinos, and Cameroonians?
Do we stand with the black, indigenous, immigrant, LGBTQ+, Muslim and Jewish communities protesting oppression by your administration here in our country?
Because if we don’t stand for human rights, women’s rights, and democracy in every corner of the globe, we don’t stand for them at all.
