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A day after Iran's foreign minister set out preconditions paving the way toward rapprochement between Tehran and Washington, his American counterpart has fired back with a series of tweets.

Referring to the 30 percent unemployment rate among youth and families struggling with economic hardship in Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrote on June 21 that Iran is wasting and “plundering” its national wealth by orchestrating proxy wars and enriching the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

“Iran’s corrupt regime has enriched IRGC, [Lebanese] Hizballah and [Palestinian] Hamas, and plundered the country’s wealth on proxy wars abroad while Iranian families struggle,” Pompeo tweeted.

Pompeo also reminded that 5,000 people were detained during December's uprising against the Iranian regime that soon spread to more than 100 cities, 30 women were arrested for protesting compulsory hijab, and hundreds of dervishes, dozens of environmental activists, and 30 farmers in Isfahan and 400 in Ahvaz were put behind bars.

All of these people, Pompeo tweeted, were “imprisoned by Iran’s criminal regime. Iranian people deserve respect for their human rights.”

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