Just about nothing went well in the interview itself or the aftermath of Mike Pompeo's NPR Q and A with Mary Louise Kelly, but one guess as to when things went off the rails is that it happened even sooner than the pivot to Ukraine -- which tough guy Pompeo said was supposed to be off-limits -- specifically when Kelly asked this question:
But again, you say you're determined to prevent them [Iran, nuclear]. How do you stop them? I was in Tehran two weeks ago. I sat down with your counterpart there, Javad Zarif, and he told me, quote, "All limits on our centrifuge program are now suspended."
Javad Zarif is technically the Iranian foreign minister, and therefore technically Pompeo's counterpart. He's also a sociopathic clown who tweeted a broken heart emoji as part of a condolence message for the IRGC shooting down the Ukrainian airliner, and his reputation is sufficiently toxic that he managed to get disinvited from Davos (something that even his deeply unpopular Lebanese counterpart Gebran Bassil couldn't manage).
Most likely, Pompeo hates Zarif, and was annoyed at any comparison to him. And the downhill got steeper from there.
Javad Zarif is technically the Iranian foreign minister, and therefore technically Pompeo's counterpart. He's also a sociopathic clown who tweeted a broken heart emoji as part of a condolence message for the IRGC shooting down the Ukrainian airliner, and his reputation is sufficiently toxic that he managed to get disinvited from Davos (something that even his deeply unpopular Lebanese counterpart Gebran Bassil couldn't manage).
Most likely, Pompeo hates Zarif, and was annoyed at any comparison to him. And the downhill got steeper from there.
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