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# Mike Pompeo Calls Iran's Religious Leaders 'Hypocritical Holy Men'

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_Published 2018-07-23. Mike Pompeo Calls Iran's Religious Leaders 'Hypocritical Holy Men'_


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## Transcript

The ayatollahs are in on the act, too. Judging by their [ UNKNOWN ] they seem more concerned with riches than religion. These hypocritical holy men have devised all kinds of crooked schemes to become some of the wealthiest men on Earth while their people suffer. The level of corruption and wealth among Iranian leaders shows that Iran is run by something that resembles the mafia. MOre than a government. on foreign policy. the regimes commission of exporting the revolution is to support a decades long campaign of ideologically motivated violence and destabilization abroad. Assad Lebanese [ UNKNOWN ], Hamas, Shiite militant groups in Iraq and the [ UNKNOWN ] in Yemen beat on billions of regime cash while the Iranian people shout slogans like Leave Syria think about us.

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