{"id":83038,"date":"2017-12-03T01:28:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T01:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/12\/03\/cia-director-confirms-he-sent-warning-letter-to-quds-commander\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:32:38","slug":"cia-director-confirms-he-sent-warning-letter-to-quds-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/flashpoints\/2017\/12\/03\/cia-director-confirms-he-sent-warning-letter-to-quds-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA director confirms he sent warning letter to Iranian Quds commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-smg-jwplayer-video\"><atype-video-jwplayer nostick=\"true\" playlisturl=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/v2\/playlists\/fCzRqMW8?tags=2b7f767b-d220-4568-9a65-d8ba2ea81ce5\" poster=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/video-poster-2b7f767b-d220-4568-9a65-d8ba2ea81ce5.jpg\" aspectratio=\"16 \/ 9\" mute autostart=\"false\"><\/atype-video-jwplayer><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CIA Director Mike Pompeo, speaking at the 2017 Reagan National Defense Forum, discusses a letter he sent to the commander of Iran&#8217;s Quds force.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>SIMI VALLEY, Calif. \u2014 CIA Director Mike Pompeo confirmed the commander of the Iranian Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, declined to receive and read a warning letter sent by Pompeo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe refused to open the letter. It didn\u2019t break my heart, to be honest with you,\u201d Pompeo said Saturday at the Reagan National Defense Forum. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Pompeo, the letter warned that the U.S. would hold Soleimani and Iran accountable for attacks by Soleimani\u2019s forces on American forces fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere was a news story, it didn\u2019t get a lot of attention over here, it got a lot of attention in Iran: I had sent a note to Qasem Soleimani,\u201d Pompeo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI sent it because he had indicated that forces under his control might, in fact, threaten U.S. forces in Iraq,\u201d Pompeo said. \u201cHis commander has also indicated an increased willingness to potentially attack U.S. forces that are in Iraq with the consent of the Iraqi government.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat we were communicating to him in that letter is that we would hold he and Iran accountable for any attacks on American interests in Iraq by forces under his control,\u201d Pompeo said. \u201cWe wanted to make sure he and Iranian leadership understood that in a way that was crystal clear.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chief of staff of Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Mohamadi Gulpaigani, told Iranian news agency FARS that the incident happened when Soleimani was in al-Boukamal, a border area between Syria and Iraq which was liberated by the Syrian regime this month. 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