‘We won’t let that happen’: Pompeo vows to keep Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo echoed President Trump’s all-caps tweet this week, saying the United States is committed to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

“President Trump could not be more clear. On our watch, Iran will not get a nuclear weapon,” Pompeo said during a press briefing Tuesday. “And as we came into office, Iran was on a pathway that had been provided by the nuclear deal, which clearly gave them the opportunity to have those nuclear weapons. We won’t let that happen.”

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