Washington (CNN)Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will unveil the administration's "Plan B" for countering Iran on Monday, an idea that some critics call a "pipe dream," while others question whether the administration is coming clean on its goals for the country.
The plan, administration officials say, is to assemble a global coalition to pressure Iran into negotiations on "a new security architecture" that goes beyond its nuclear program. Pompeo's address, his first major foreign policy speech as secretary, will take place at 9 a.m., ET, at the conservative Heritage Foundation policy group.
"We need a new framework that's going to address the totality of Iran's threats," Brian Hook, the State Department's director of policy planning told reporters Friday. "This involves a range of things around its nuclear program - missiles, proliferating missiles and missile technology, its support for terrorists, and its aggressive and violent activities that fuel civil wars in Syria and Yemen."
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WNU Editor: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is going to outline a plan to assemble a global coalition to pressure Iran into negotiations on "a new security architecture" that goes beyond its nuclear program. My prediction .... there is going to be no global coalition that will be assembled to pressure Iran. But there is a part of me that believes that Mike Pompeo knows that .... that this is more for show, and that his real focus will be to use the threat of U.S. penalties on companies who may decide to do business with Iran.
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Pompeo Asks Allies' To Help Push Iran Back To Negotiation Table -- RFE
Pompeo to call for broad support to pressure Iran -- Reuters
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Pompeo knows that allies must have burden sharing at the core of the alliance. With regard to Iran, the USA shouldered the burdens and the Euros took the benefits. Trump ending the JCPOA means burden sharing for our “allies”,so they aren’t happy.
Plan B: Regime change. Always regime change with these clowns. Pompeo, Bolton, etc.. live in a fantasy world of the mind.
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