Trump is dead wrong to leave his own ex-officials exposed to Iran’s wrath
By Post Editorial Board
Published Jan. 24, 2025, 6:29 p.m. ET
Whoever steered President Trump into removing of the security teams protecting former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others facing Iranian death threats was way off-base — and the prez should reverse that dangerous call at once.
Pompeo tops Tehran’s hit list for his part in taking out Iranian Gen. Qassem Suleimani in January 2020, a massive strategic win for Trump in his first term.
The threats are neither hypothetical nor vague: In 2022, Supreme Leader (and Grand Ayatollah) Ali Khamenei’s website published the video “Revenge is definite” that showed animated versions of Pompeo and Trump being scoped out by a remote weapon.
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton and ex-Pompeo aide Brian Hook have also been threatened by the mullahs for their roles in the Soleimani operation — and just got their security yanked, too.
Pompeo and (especially) Bolton have aired grievances against Trump, but that doesn’t change the fact that they crossed Iran in the course of their jobs of working for him and the nation.
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