US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo responded on Monday night to the abrupt resignation of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamad Javad Zarif, making clear that the US position on Iran remains unchanged.

“We note Zarif’s resignation. We’ll see if it sticks. Either way, he and [Iranian President] Hassan Rouhani are just front men for a corrupt religious mafia. We know [Supreme Leader Ayatollah] Khamenei makes all final decisions. Our policy is unchanged—the regime must behave like a normal country and respect its people,” Pompeo wrote on Twitter.


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