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US Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, speaks to members of the media as the Trump cabinet briefs members of Congress on Iran, at the US Capitol on March 3, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)
May 24, 2026, 3:03 am
‘Nightmare for Israel’: Senior GOP senators criticize alleged terms of emerging Iran deal
After Iran says nuclear issues aren’t part of current talks, former secretary of state Mike Pompeo compares terms to 2015 Iran deal, says it will let Tehran ‘terrorize the world’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
In this February 7, 2019 file photo, from left, National Security Adviser John Bolton, accompanied by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and US President Donald Trump, speaks before Trump signs a National Security Presidential Memorandum to launch the "Women's Global Development and Prosperity" Initiative in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
January 27, 2025, 3:17 pm
Trump urged to rethink nixing security for US ex-officials under threat from Iran
Chair of US Senate Intelligence Committee Cotton encourages US president to revisit decision to remove security details for John Bolton, Mike Pompeo and Brian Hook
By Thomas Beaumont
US President Donald Trump speaks to the media after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, January 23, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP)
January 23, 2025, 11:26 pm
Trump says ‘would be nice’ to solve Iranian nuclear crisis without Israeli strikes
US president reportedly set to tap Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff as Iran point man, signaling turn away from ‘maximum pressure’ policy of 1st term: ‘Certainly somebody I would use’
By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and AP
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (center) and his wife Asma al-Assad (left) attend the opening ceremony of the 2022 Asian Games at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province on September 23, 2023. (Philip FONG / AFP)
December 13, 2024, 6:14 pm
Asma al-Assad: From Syria’s ‘desert rose’ to international pariah
UK-born Syrian former first lady stood by in silence as her husband’s regime carried out appalling acts of violence; accused of being ‘one of Syria’s most notorious war profiteers’
By Marie Heuclin
Republican presidential candidate former US president Donald Trump (right) and Rep. Elise Stefanik at a campaign event in Concord, New Hampshire, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
November 11, 2024, 2:32 pm
Trump picks Elise Stefanik, leading voice against campus antisemitism, as UN envoy
NY Republican made headlines with questioning of university presidents; US president-elect brings back hardline immigration official Tom Homan to oversee borders
By ToI Staff and Agencies
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks on as US Ambassador to the United Nation Nikki Haley speaks at the US Department of State in Washington DC on June 19, 2018.(AFP Photo/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)
November 10, 2024, 4:32 am
Trump says former cabinet members Pompeo, Haley won’t be in new administration
US president-elect said to make announcement 30 mins after news site requested comment for story on Pompeo’s bid for defense role being blocked by Donald Trump Jr. and Tucker Carlson
By Joshua MELVIN
This handout image provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on August 10, 2022, shows the wanted poster of 45-year-old Shahram Poursafi. (FBI / AFP)
October 23, 2024, 4:04 am
Assassination plots in Israel recall Iran’s long history of hit attempts on US soil
George Washington University study lays bare the Islamic Republic’s ‘tragicomic’ alliances with criminal gangs to kill dissidents and US officials, including former president Trump
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Illustrative: Israeli settlers hurl stones at Palestinians near the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank on October 7, 2020. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90/File)
February 21, 2024, 4:40 pm
US readying to issue 2nd round of settler sanctions in coming weeks — sources
Several more Israeli extremists will face financial penalties with additional rounds to follow, official says; add that unilateral recognition of Palestinian state not likely
By Jacob Magid
Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, March 3, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
April 15, 2023, 10:54 am
Ex-US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says not running for president
Former head of CIA opts out of competing against Trump, but leaves door open on future run; counts Abraham Accords among his proudest achievements
By Thomas Beaumont and MEG KINNARD
Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo at a political event in Manchester, New Hampshire, September 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
February 16, 2023, 7:31 am
Pompeo, weighing presidential run, calls Palestinian president a ‘known terrorist’
Former US secretary of state says Israel has biblical claim to the land, hedges on two-state solution, dismisses concerns about judicial overhaul
By Luke Tress
In this March 26, 2021 file photo, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the West Side Conservative Club, in Urbandale, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
January 25, 2023, 1:01 am
In new book, Pompeo says US averted nuclear war between India and Pakistan
Former secretary of state details his tenure as Trump’s top diplomat in ‘Never Give an Inch,’ including his first sit-down with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un
By Shaun Tandon
Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo addresses an audience at a periodic 'Politics and Eggs' gathering at Saint Anselm College, in Manchester, New Hampshire, September 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
November 14, 2022, 11:41 pm
State Department says Pompeo, top aide Hook still under Iranian threat
US Congress noted that former secretary of state and special representative for Iran should continue to get government protection, due to ‘serious and credible’ danger
By Matthew Lee
Former National security adviser John Bolton gestures while speakings at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, September 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
August 11, 2022, 11:48 pm
Iran denies plot to assassinate former senior US official John Bolton
Tehran dismisses indictment of Revolutionary Guards member accused of offering to pay to kill the ex-national security adviser as ‘a new work of fiction’
By AFP
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting at The Venetian hotel-casino November 6, 2021, in Las Vegas. (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
June 13, 2022, 8:24 am
Ron DeSantis slams ‘woke gender ideology’ in speech to Jewish group in Manhattan
Defiant Florida governor, whose appearance at Tikvah Fund event draws protests outside, says ‘wokeness’ is a cancer destroying the US
By Jacob Henry
Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps are seen at an annual military parade in front of the mausoleum of the late Ayatollah Khomeini just outside Tehran on September 22, 2014. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi/File)
March 24, 2022, 10:34 am
Iran hasn’t agreed to terms for IRGC terror delisting as US gets cold feet — report
Washington said to demand Tehran publicly commit to Mideast de-escalation in return for taking Revolutionary Guard Corps off terror list; White House worried about domestic outcry
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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