Mike Pompeo Warns Sanctions on Iran Will Be the ‘Toughest’ Ever: Trump is ‘Putting the World on Notice’

With new U.S. sanctions on Iran just hours away, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is warning that they’ll really pack an economic punch.

In a Face the Nation interview that aired Sunday, Pompeo told John Dickerson emphasized that “they will be the toughest sanctions ever placed against the Islamic republic of Iran.”

“The whole world understands that these sanctions are real, that they are important, that they drive the Iranian people’s opportunity to make the changes in Iran that they so desperately want and stop Iran from having the wealth and money they need to continue to foment terror around the world.”

Pompeo also remarked on President Donald Trump‘s “sanctions are coming” message, which he tweeted out in the form of a dramatic Game of Thrones-style poster Friday.

“He was putting the world on notice that the terror regime which threatens Israel through Iranian funding of Hezbollah, that the terror regime that attempted to conduct an assassination in Denmark over the past few weeks, that the terror regime that continues to fund the Houthis launching missiles into Riyadh and into Dubai, that’s going to stop, that behavior must change and sanctions from the United States will be reimposed at midnight tonight,” he said.

Watch the clip above via Face the Nation.

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