The main message in Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech in Cairo today was stated over and over: Barack Obama’s approach to the Middle East was dangerous and wrong, and Iran is the arch enemy of stability across the region. Marco Werman speaks with the BBC’s Sally Nabil to parse the speech and how it sounded to residents of the Middle East.
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