Biden should support Israel, not Iran, says Mike Pompeo

Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo on Wednesday urged President Joe Biden's administration to stand up for Israel by preventing Iran from building nuclear weapons.

Pompeo condemned this week’s talks in Vienna between Iran and France, Britain and Germany, and indirectly the US, about Washington rejoining a 2015 nuclear deal that was abandoned by the administration of president Donald Trump.
 

"It is anti-Semitic. Indeed, it speaks of its genocidal intent while denying the Holocaust."

Biden is seeking to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and other world powers, which lifted sanctions on Tehran in exchange for limits to its nuclear programme.
 

“America, which is the noblest force for good and for human rights in the world, cannot permit the return to a situation where the … capacity for Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon is real,” Pompeo claimed.

Signatories to the deal will meet again on Thursday for talks aimed at finding a way for the US to re-enter the pact.

Trump illigaly withdrew the US from the pact in 2018.