Previewing Secretary Pompeo's Remarks on Iran

Special Briefing

Senior State Department Official

Via Teleconference

July 19, 2018

MODERATOR: Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining today’s call. We’re pleased to have a senior State Department official here today to preview Secretary Pompeo’s remarks on Iran at the Reagan – Ronald Reagan Presidential Library this Sunday. For your reference purposes only and not for reporting, we are pleased to welcome [Senior State Department Official]. From this point on, he will be referred to as a senior State Department official. He will have some brief remarks at the top, and then we’ll be happy to take some questions. Just as a reminder, this call is embargoed until the conclusion of the call.

So with that, let’s get started. And I’ll turn it over to our senior State Department official.

SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: Hi. Thanks very much for joining the call. The Secretary will be giving a speech at the Reagan Library on July 22nd, titled – the remarks are titled “Supporting Iranian Voices.” He will be joined at the event by some members of Congress, including the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce and Senator Tom Cotton. They’ll be – plus there’ll be some other members of Congress who will be joining.

The Secretary in his speech in May, on May 22nd, where he unveiled the administration’s new Iran strategy, made a number of remarks addressed to the Iranian people. And he now is continuing that conversation by now addressing Iranian – the Iranian diaspora in the United States. Southern California is home to around 250,000 Iranian Americans.

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