Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo aired skepticism about the ongoing Iran-U.S. nuclear deal talks and outlined what, in his view, a potential agreement with the Islamic republic should look like.

“The thousands of victims of Iran’s terror machine know all too well that ‘living happily without death’ is impossible under the current regime. And a fake deal focused solely on nuclear enrichment will result in far less happiness and more death, not the reverse—not only for the Iranian people but for human beings all across the world,” Pompeo wrote in an op-ed for The Free Press published on Friday.

Pompeo, a longtime Iran hawk, said the Trump administration is negotiating a deal while Iran is in its “weakest strategic point in decades” and the president’s “hand could not be stronger.”

Therefore, an agreement........

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