These pressure groups represent everything that is wrong with American foreign policy: private interests masquerading as national interests, ideological crusades at the expense of diplomacy
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Pompeo is part of a wider network. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies was established in 2001 as EMET, a group whose own tax filing described its purpose as improving Israel's image in North America. United Against Nuclear Iran, a hawkish pressure group, spent the years after sanctions were lifted under the 2015 deal intimidating banks and companies that wanted to do business with Iran. These groups opposed the 2015 nuclear deal, efforts to revive it in 2021, the 2025 negotiations, and the June memorandum of understanding in Islamabad. Each failed diplomatic effort brought Washington closer to a war that serves Israeli interests at the expense of American taxpayers.
His new firm, CNQ, is built from the same material. Its president, Matthew Kroenig, wrote "Time to Attack Iran," a 2012 essay calling preventive war the least bad option. Senior adviser Elliott Abrams pleaded guilty in the Iran-Contra affair and went on to serve as Trump's Iran envoy.
Pompeo, meanwhile, has become a lobbyist for the MEK, a cult-like organization that fought alongside Saddam Hussein's regime during the Iran-Iraq War and helped suppress Kurdish uprisings in Iraq. After leaving office, Pompeo travelled to the group's compound in Albania to urge Washington to engage with it.
These pressure groups represent everything that is wrong with American foreign policy: private interests masquerading as national interests, ideological crusades at the expense of diplomacy, and a willingness to drag the United States into wars whose costs are borne by American taxpayers while the strategic benefits accrue elsewhere.
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