Trump to announce broad Iran strategy this week - White House

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Trump to announce broad Iran strategy this week - White House

 

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 10, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will make an announcement this week on an "overall Iran strategy," including whether to decertify the international deal curbing Tehran's nuclear programme, the White House said on Tuesday.

 

"He'll make that later this week," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters when asked about the certification decision and the administration's broader strategy on Iran.

 

Trump, who has called the 2015 pact agreed between Iran and six world powers an "embarrassment," is expected to announce that he will decertify the deal ahead of an Oct. 15 deadline, a senior administration official said last week.

 

Trump is also expected to designate Iran's most powerful security force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp, as a terrorist organisation as part of a new Iran strategy.

 

"The president has reached a decision on an overall Iran strategy and wants to make sure that we have a broad policy to deal with ... all of the problems of Iran being a bad actor," Sanders said.

 

Trump accuses Iran of supporting terrorism and says the 2015 deal does not do enough to block its path to acquire nuclear weapons. Iran says it does not seek nuclear weapons and in turn blames the growth of militant groups such as Islamic State on the policies of the United States and its regional allies.

 

The hawkish turn in U.S. policy towards Iran has alarmed many of its European allies. British Prime Minister Theresa May told Trump by phone on Tuesday that the deal was "vitally important for regional security."

 

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Monday urged the United States "not to call into question such an important achievement that has improved our security."

 

France voiced concern on Tuesday that designating the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group could exacerbate tensions in the region.

 

If Trump declines to certify the Iran deal, U.S. congressional leaders would have 60 days to decide whether to reimpose sanctions on Tehran suspended under the agreement.

 

Iranian authorities, who have said Tehran would not be the first to violate the accord, have stepped up their rhetoric against the Trump administration over the possible terrorist designation of the Revolutionary Guards.

 

"The Americans have driven the world crazy by their behaviour. It is time to teach them a new lesson," Iranian armed forces spokesman Masoud Jazayeri said on Tuesday.

 

(Reporting by Jeff Mason; Writing by Tim Ahmann and Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Grant McCool and James Dalgleish)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-10-11

[anto]

That deep state creep ,Kissinger is still around .The US have Iran in their sights to invade .Look up what General Wesley Clark has said .

[mamypoko]

Iran - pure red meat for the GOP masses. Page 63 of the Republican Play Book.

[phantomfiddler]

Iran, the enemy of the civilized world !

[MisterTee]

2 hours ago, anto said:

That deep state creep ,Kissinger is still around .The US have Iran in their sights to invade .Look up what General Wesley Clark has said .

For sure.

What is at issue here is Iran's support for Hezbollah and the threat it poses to Israel.

[Morch]

4 hours ago, MisterTee said:

For sure.

What is at issue here is Iran's support for Hezbollah and the threat it poses to Israel.

 

Yeah, nothing to do with Saudi Arabia's and the rest of the GCC interests, nothing to do with the bad blood between the USA and Iran, nothing whatsoever to do with anything - just the above. Right.

 

 

[MisterTee]

11 minutes ago, Morch said:

 

Yeah, nothing to do with Saudi Arabia's and the rest of the GCC interests, nothing to do with the bad blood between the USA and Iran, nothing whatsoever to do with anything - just the above. Right.

 

 

Yeah, all those things, maybe.

But it takes a unique kind of stupidity to ignore the primary cause.

Or an agenda to push, perhaps.

[Morch]

Just now, MisterTee said:

Yeah, all those things, maybe.

But it takes a unique kind of stupidity to ignore the primary cause.

Or an agenda to push, perhaps.

 

Your rudeness is dully noted.

Nothing really to support your assertion as to "primary cause", and willfully ignoring obvious factors.

I'm well aware of the agenda you push, thanks.

[William T]

Not content with threatening North Korea with all out war. Trump has decided he will provoke Iran by reneging on the Deal and use that as an excuse to start a war with Iran .

 

Look at the mess the Middle East is in because Bush decided to invade Afghanistan and then Iraq.

Iraq never threatened USA and had no WMDs but he thought he could remove Saddam, set up Ahmed Chalabi as a puppet President, get control of Iraq's oil and send it through a new 42 pipeline to Haifa in Israel.

 

The moral is don't start a second war till you have finished with the first one.

How long has the Afghan war been going on? Trump wanted to get out but has been persuaded to send more troops.

Edited October 11, 2017 by William T

[ilostmypassword]

2 hours ago, William T said:

Not content with threatening North Korea with all out war. Trump has decided he will provoke Iran by reneging on the Deal and use that as an excuse to start a war with Iran .

 

Look at the mess the Middle East is in because Bush decided to invade Afghanistan and then Iraq.

Iraq never threatened USA and had no WMDs but he thought he could remove Saddam, set up Ahmed Chalabi as a puppet President, get control of Iraq's oil and send it through a new 42 pipeline to Haifa in Israel.

 

The moral is don't start a second war till you have finished with the first one.

How long has the Afghan war been going on? Trump wanted to get out but has been persuaded to send more troops.

ANd to make it worse Chalabi seems to have either have been all along, or ro have become, an agent of the Iranians.

[William T]

5 hours ago, William T said:

Not content with threatening North Korea with all out war. Trump has decided he will provoke Iran by reneging on the Deal and use that as an excuse to start a war with Iran .

 

Look at the mess the Middle East is in because Bush decided to invade Afghanistan and then Iraq.

Iraq never threatened USA and had no WMDs but he thought he could remove Saddam, set up Ahmed Chalabi as a puppet President, get control of Iraq's oil and send it through a new 42 pipeline to Haifa in Israel.

 

The moral is don't start a second war till you have finished with the first one.

How long has the Afghan war been going on? Trump wanted to get out but has been persuaded to send more troops.

KABUL (Reuters) - American warplanes in Afghanistan are dropping bombs in numbers not seen since the height of the U.S. troop surge in 2010, after President Donald Trump announced a new strategy in August to ease attack curbs and widen the range of militant targets.

 

In September, for example, the U.S. Air Force dropped 751 bombs, an increase of nearly 50 percent from the August figure of 503, to reach its highest single-month total in seven years, military data showed.

 

Afghanistan: 16 years, thousands dead and no clear end in sight - CNN

edition.cnn.com/2017/08/21/asia/afghanistan-war-explainer/index.html

Sep 19, 2017 - (CNN)America's longest war continues to trudge on and the bodies continue to pile up. The summer of 2017 has been a bloody one in Afghanistan, with the death toll numbering in the hundreds. ... Tens of thousands of Afghan civilians and military have also died in the conflict.

Afghanistan war: U.S. sending more troops - USA Today

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/08/31/...afghanistan/621140001/

Aug 31, 2017 - U.S. to send additional troops to Afghanistan. ... Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday that the Pentagon will dispatch additional troops to Afghanistan, where U.S.-backed security forces are stalemated in a war against the Taliban and other insurgent groups.

Edited October 11, 2017 by William T