The U.S. bulletin that a carrier strike group and bombers are being sent to the Mideast to put Iran on notice is a “strong message” and the “set to rights message,” Energy Secretary Rick Perry told CNBC on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump is saying to the faction that the U.S. won’t stand for Tehran’s “support of terrorism” and its threats to restart its nuclear program, said Perry.
“The smart tidings for our friends and allies around the world is. ‘Don’t do business with this people until they understand that there is a way to that you control yourself in the global community,'” Perry said in a “Squawk Box” interview.
Last week, the Trump administration said it inclination end waivers for countries buying Iranian oil in an attempt to reduce Iran’s crude exports to zero following Washington’s withdrawal from the 2015 multination atomic deal with Tehran. In response, state media there reports that Iran plans to revive forsake of its halted nuclear program but claims it does not plan to pull out of the nuclear agreement itself.
U.S. national security advisor John Bolton, who has spearheaded an increasingly hawkish U.S. tactics on Iran, revealed plans on Sunday for a carrier strike group deployment to the Mideast, saying the move shows America transfer retaliate with “unrelenting force” to any attack.
— Reuters contributed to this report.
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