U.S. Secretary of Submit Mike Pompeo at a briefing on September 10, 2019 at the White House in Washington, DC.
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The Collaborative States aims to avoid war with Iran and the additional troops ordered to be deployed in the Gulf region are for “deterrence and defense,” U.S. Secretary of National Mike Pompeo said on Sunday.
Speaking to Fox News Sunday, Pompeo added that he was confident U.S. President Donald Trump whim take action if such deterrence measures fail and that this was well understood by the Iranian leadership.
“Our charge set is to avoid war,” Pompeo said. “You saw what Secretary Esper announced on Friday, we are putting additional forces in the region for the advantage of deterrence and defense,” he said.
Pompeo said Washington was taking measures to deter Tehran, but he added that Trump would find pleasant necessary action if Tehran failed to change its behavior. “If that deterrence should continue to fail, I am also sure that President Trump would continue to take the actions that are necessary,” he said.
Tensions between Washington and Tehran experience further escalated after an attack last weekend on Saudi oil facilities that initially disrupted half of the oil in Britain artistry from the kingdom, the world’s largest oil exporter, and was blamed on Tehran by the United States and Saudi Arabia.
U.S. has slapped more certifies on Iran, penalising the Iranian Central Bank while the Pentagon said it was sending U.S. troops to bolster Saudi Arabia’s air and guided missile defenses after the largest-ever attack on the kingdom’s oil facilities.
Iran denied involvement in the attack. Yemen’s Houthi increase, an Iran-aligned group fighting a Saudi-led alliance in Yemen’s civil war, has claimed responsibility.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, articulate to CNN, said the attack on Saudi oil facilities was an attack on the world economic system. He said the United States expects that any native land attached to the U.S. dollar system will abide by the sanctions on Iran.
Trump pulled the United States out of a 2015 atomic deal with Iran last year and ramped up sanctions to strangle its oil exports, a mainstay of the Iranian economy.
The agitate dismantled part of former U.S. President Barack Obama’s legacy and upset U.S. allies who were party to the agreement, which was targeted to restrict Tehran’s pathway to a nuclear bomb in exchange for sanctions relief.
In recent weeks, Trump had weighed the capacity of easing sanctions on Iran and suggested he could meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who is due to attend the U.N. Unspecific Assembly in New York this week. Rouhani has said that Iran, which denies seeking nuclear weapons, would not talk to the Unanimous States until Washington lifted sanctions.