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United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said all options are on the table to deal with the Iranian dossier, noting declining funding for militias in Syria and Iraq, and support for Hezbollah thanks to sanctions. imposed on Tehran.
“We were very successful in dealing with Iran,” Pompeo told the Jerusalem Post during his visit to Israel. “I remember when we started the maximum pressure campaign. We pulled out of the nuclear deal with Iran. And the scientist said this will never work; US sanctions alone will not succeed.
“Well, they have drastically reduced Iran’s ability to cause damage around the world. They are still active, as can be seen from continuous fertilization. They continue to fund militias in Syria and Iraq and support Hezbollah. But not as much as it used to be.
He noted that the path taken by President Donald Trump deprived the regime of its resources to continue to endanger the Middle East, saying: “Trump has done a lot of things. Most importantly, it deprived them of money. This also sent a strong message to the Middle East that facilitated the Ibrahim Accord, isolating Iran in completely different ways than it had been before.
The New York Times cited four current and former US officials who said the US president had asked his senior advisers to know if he had options to take military action against the Natanz nuclear site over the next several weeks, which is the site. that the International Atomic Energy Agency recently said it is witnessing. Increased nuclear activity.
The sources told the newspaper that Trump made this request during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House last Thursday, the day after the agency’s inspectors announced that they had detected a significant increase in the arsenal of nuclear materials of Iran.
A US official who spoke to Reuters confirmed that this meeting was held, indicating that the president ultimately decided not to proceed with the implementation of any military plan.
According to the New York Times report, several of Trump’s top aides dissuaded him from going ahead with a military strike, warning that targeting Iranian facilities “could lead to a broader conflict during the final weeks of Trump’s presidency.”
