The State Department pays $2 million per month to protect former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his special Iran envoy Brian Hook from Iranian assassins.

To put that in perspective, in the first five months of this year, the State Department spent more money protecting the two men than the entire annual budget for American Citizen Services. The Biden administration has not allowed intelligence about Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps assassination plots against the two men from former national security adviser John Bolton and others to stand in the way of nuclear negotiations and financial relief. Even, that is, as Iran’s supreme leader threatens more assassinations and rebuffs President Joe Biden’s offers.