Tuesday, 12 January 2021_Outgoing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has reportedly been spotted dining with Yossi Cohen, head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, at a café in Washington a head of a planned anti-Iran speech by the top US diplomat.
The White House reporter for US-based POLITICO reported the news in a tweet published on Monday night.
The meeting came one day before Pompeo’s televised speech at the National Press Club in Washington, where he reportedly plans to use what is said to be “declassified US intelligence” to publicly accuse Iran of ties with the al-Qaeda militant group, an allegation roundly rejected by Tehran.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters that Pompeo is expected to claim that Iran has given safe haven to al-Qaeda leaders despite some skepticism within the intelligence community and Congress.
He could cite the information on what the US and Israel claim to be the killing of al-Qaeda’s suspected second-in-command in Tehran last year, they added.
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