Pompeo said al-Qaeda has a new main base in Iran

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday without clear evidence that the al-Qaeda terrorist network had set up a new main base in Iran. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif immediately called the allegations untrue and accused Pompey of wartime. The New York Times (NYT) wrote in November that Israeli agents killed the second highest-ranking man in the al-Qaeda terrorist network, Abdallah Ahmed Abdallah, during a covert operation in Iran in August. The Egyptian, who spoke under the name of Abu Muhammad Masri, is considered one of the perpetrators of the assassinations of the US embassies in Nairobi and Daresalam in 1998 and has also been talked about as a possible successor to the current al-Qaeda leader, Ayman Zavahri. Iran refused at the time, saying it had no al-Qaeda terrorists on its territory. Pompeo said at a news conference in Washington eight days before the end of President Donald Trump's term that Masri died last August 7. He emphasized that he was announcing this publicly for the first time. Subsequently, the US Secretary of State noted that Masri's work in Iran was not surprising. Pompeo said, Masri's presence in Iran is related to why we are here today - Al Qaeda has a new home base, it is the Islamic Republic of Iran. His Iranian counterpart Zarif called the allegations about Iran's ties to al-Qaeda fictitious on Twitter. He accused Pompea of ​​wartime and lies. While Iran is dominated by Shiite Islam, al-Qaeda is a Sunni organization.