Pompeo team urges Biden to use Trump sanctions as 'leverage' in expected Iran talks

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is continuing to blacklist Iranian entities in the lame-duck period after the election as Iran hawks urge President-elect Joe Biden to use President Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign as “leverage” in expected talks with the regime.

“It’s a crazy idea to think that you’re going to get back into a deal that permitted a clean pathway for the Iranians to have a nuclear weapon by which they could terrorize the entire world,” Pompeo told conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt. “Going back to it would just be crazy.”