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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged European countries on Thursday to support American plans to cut Iran regime off from world energy markets, AFP reports.<\/p>\n
These comments came during talks in Brussels at the EU-US energy council, on the sidelines of the NATO summit, with Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Saudi foreign minister Adel Al Jubeir, Iraqi PM Haider Al Abadi, and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in attendance.<\/p>\n
At these meetings, Pompeo committed to increasing US-Saudi cooperation to \u201caddress the full array of threats posed by Iran\u201d and have the Gulf partners \u201cwork together to promote regional security and stability, and stand against Iran\u2019s destabilising activities\u201d.<\/p>\n
This includes Iran’s support of the terrorist Houthis in Yemen, use of ballistic missiles in spite of a UN resolution, support for Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and his use of chemical weapons, interference in the Iraqi elections, and the latest terror plot by Iran targeting the Iranian Resistance in Paris.<\/p>\n
Tweets<\/p>\n
While Pompeo made no official statement before going into the talks tweeted: “Iran continues to send weapons across the Middle East, in blatant violation of UN Security Council resolutions. Iran’s regime wants to start trouble wherever it can. It’s our responsibility to stop it.”<\/p>\n
Then, just before the talks he tweeted: “We ask our allies and partners to join our economic pressure campaign against Iran’s regime. We must cut off all funding the regime uses to fund terrorism and proxy wars. There’s no telling when Iran may try to foment terrorism, violence and instability in one of our countries next.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nWe ask our allies & partners to join our economic pressure campaign against \u2019s regime. We must cut off all funding the regime uses to fund terrorism & proxy wars. There\u2019s no telling when Iran may try to foment terrorism, violence & instability in one of our countries next. pic.twitter.com\/XHxd3EPaBP<\/a><\/p>\n