today, i'm happy to announce the creation of the iran action group. the iran action group will be responsible for directing, reviewing and coordinating all aspects of the state department's iran related activity. they will report directly to me. for nearly 40 years the regime in tehran has been responsible for a torrent of violent and destabilizing behavior toward the united states, allies, partners and the iranian people themselves. in may of this year, president trump withdrew from the iran nuclear deal which failed to restrain iran's nuclear progress or its campaigns of violence abroad. in its place, president trump has instituted a campaign of pressure, deterrence and solidarity with the long-suffering iranian people. our hope is that one day soon we can reach a new agreement with iran, but we must see major changes in the regime's behavior both inside and outside of its borders. the iranian people and the world are demanding iran finally act like a normal nation. the iran action group will drive daily progress on these objectives and i hope, do mu

our new strategy addresses all manifestations of the iranian threat and the new iran action group will be focused on implementing that strategy we have an elite team of foreign affairs professionals here at the state department and across the administration. the iran action group will play a critical role in leading our efforts within the department and executing the president's iran strategy across the interagency the administration will also build continue to build the broadest level of international support for our strategy just yesterday i was in london meeting with senior officials from germany france and the united kingdom for productive discussions on iran we will continue to build on those areas where we are in agreement with our allies and partners around the world and we will work to find consensus on those areas where we are not i have worked on iran throughout my career in foreign policy beginning in two thousand and six on the u.n. security council serving as an advisor to u.n. ambassador bolton. i thank secretary pompei zero for this opportunity and the confidence he has

secretary of state mike pompei o has unveiled what is being called the iran action group trying to make certain that all parts of the u.s. government are working on a strategy to compel iran to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions as well as to stop its efforts of supporting groups such as hamas hezbollah the who these in yemen and other such organizations that have been listed as terrorist groups under u.s. law even though this effort is now being unveiled the administration is denying charges that it is trying to push for regime change inside iran there's also the question of whether the u.s. is goal of trying to get other countries on board with this new effort will work notably countries within the european union which have long standing economic ties to terror on when asked whether or not the u.s. was going to have a problem getting these countries to agree to put more pressure on iran to change its ways this is what brian hall the new special representative for iran had to say that's the purpose of maximum economic pressure the point is not to create any rifts with with other nat

morry him to be truthful it's not very clear what it is the iran action group is supposed to be doing or how it's supposed to achieve those goals and because at heart it really comes down to what is the trumpet ministrations overall policy regarding iran all we heard from donald trump when he was running for president back in two thousand and sixteen was his view that the iran nuclear deal was a badly negotiated deal that he would pull the u.s. out of the agreement that he would then try to actually negotiate what he termed a better deal we didn't hear such language coming either from secretary of state mike pompei or from brian who's the new special representative in charge of this group at thursday afternoon announcement but suffice it to say plenty of people are going to be asking questions about one whether this group can be effective and to whether it's going to get the body and from the international community that other efforts such as the u.s. led effort to defeat i sold garnered when it was stood up about four years ago. and how much might this be part of a continued effort b

of state has formed a special group that will coordinate washington's policy on iran that says it continues to pressure the country with sanctions the heads of the iran action group will be brian hooke the state department's director of policy planning he says the u.s. is prepared to sanction any country trading with iran in our sanctions regime yes we will we are prepared to impose secondary sanctions on regimes i'm sorry on on other governments. that continue this sort of trade with iran those sanctions will come into effect on november fifth those will include sanctions on iran's energy sector transactions by foreign financial institutions with the central bank of iran iran shipping in shipbuilding sectors among others the first rounds of new sanctions when activists of this month after president trump announced a u.s. withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal the sanctions perhaps iran from using the u.s. dollar this tricks trading in precious metals it's also limits the rainy and currency flows as well as imposing constraints on the also trades the u.s. move is widely opposed by european countries. a free c.r.b. former advisor to iran's nuclear negotiating

they established in the state department and iran action group to change iran's behavior. he thinks there is more far reaching goal ahead. the real question is can talks pick up again? he doesn't think that is possible unless the iran nuclear deal is honored. there could be more damage ahead with sanctions in early november. back to you. >> nick paton walsh, thank you. >>> white house rejecting turkey's offer to release andew brunson. the turkey government wants to forgive the billions of fines. trump wants the north carolina pastor freed before other matters. this could lead to more u.s. sanctions. brunson's incarceration has strained relations with the two countries and sparking a sharp value in currency. >>> timeline to end the trade war. a delegation leads to washington this week for trade talks. the wall street journal says china and the u.s. are working on a road map to end the trade dispute. the deadline is november. that is the next time president trump and xi jinping will meet. for months, they have threatened each other with billions of tariffs. this week, the u.

pompei or has formed a special group that will coordinate washington's policy on iran that as it continues to pressure the country with sanctions the head of the iran action group with brian hook the state department's director of policy planning he says the u.s. is prepared to sanction any country trading with iran. in our sanctions regime yes we will we are prepared to impose secondary sanctions on regimes i'm sorry on on other governments. the continue the sort of trade with iran for those sanctions will come into effect on november fifth those will include sanctions on iran's energy sector transactions by foreign financial institutions with the central bank of iran iran shipping and ship building sectors among others were new down to around sanctions were enacted earlier this month after president trump announced the country has the country's withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal the sanctions prohibit iran from using the us dollar and restricts trading in precious metals to it also limits iranian currency flows as well as imposing constraints on the auto trade the u.s. move is widely opposed though by european countries so let's get some analysis a w

secretary of state mike pompei o has unveiled what is being called the iran action group trying to make certain that all parts of the u.s. government are working on a strategy to compel iran to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions as well as to stop its efforts of supporting groups such as hamas hezbollah the who these in yemen and other such organizations that have been listed as terrorist groups under u.s. law even though this effort is now being unveiled the administration is denying charges that it is trying to push for regime change inside iran there's also the question of whether the u.s. is goal of trying to get other countries on board with this new effort will work notably countries within the european union which have long standing economic ties to terror on when asked whether or not the u.s. was going to have a problem getting these countries to agree to put more pressure on iran to change its ways this is what brian hall the new special representative for iran had to say that's the purpose of maximum economic pressure the point is not to create any rifts with with other nat

secretary of state mike pompei a has unveiled what is being called the iran action group trying to make certain that all parts of the u.s. government are working on a strategy to compel iran to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions as well as to stop its efforts of supporting groups such as hamas hezbollah the who these in yemen and other such organizations that have been listed as terrorist groups under u.s. law even though this effort is now being unveiled the administration is denying charges that it is trying to push for regime change inside iran there's also the question of whether the u.s. is goal of trying to get other countries on board with this new effort will work notably countries within the european union which have long standing economic ties to terror on when asked whether or not the u.s. was going to have a problem getting these countries to agree to put more pressure on iran to change its ways this is what brian hall the new special representative for iran had to say that's the purpose of maximum economic pressure the point is not to create any rifts with with other nat

. >> the iran action group will be responsible directing, reviewing all aspects of the state departmentran related activity, will report directly to me, for nearly 40 years the regime in tehran have been responsible for violence and terrorism behavior against united states, allies and partners including iranian people themselves. >> that's secretary of state mike pompeo announcing a new task force focusing on iran, this is the trump administration moves forward with efforts to force changes in tehran's behavior, general anthony, former deputy commanding general with u.s. forces in afghanistan, also the author of the upcoming novel dark winter which hits book sthestles -- shelves this october, so much with iran, endeavor -- devastating behavior, and it's, you know, no secret that the sanctions that president trump has talked about reimposing in faith of 2015 iran deal is part of the steps, from your experience outside of the sanction in position, what other things should we be doing to force some of the bad behavior from tehran in iran to deescalate. >> i think secretary pompeo has it ex

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policy toward iran and the creation of the iran action group. m the state department, this is 15 minutes. sec. pompeo: good afternoon, everyone. today, i'm happy to announce the creation of the iran action group. the iran action group will be responsible for directing, reviewing and coordinating all aspects of the state department's iran related activity. they will report directly to me. for nearly 40 years the regime in tehran has been responsible for a torrent of violent and

today, i'm happy to announce the creation of the iran action group. iran action group will be responsible for directing, reviewing and coordinating all aspects of the state department's iran related activity. they will report directly to me. for nearly 40 years the regime eh

group to coordinate iran policy and negotiate u.s.-iran relations since trump's decision to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal. the newly formed iran action will be led by senior policy adviser brian hook, who led the administration's unsuccessful attempt to negotiate changes to the nuclear deal before trump dumped it in may. the appointment comes as tensions are escalating between the u.s. and iran after the trump administration re-imposed economic sanctions against iran last weeeek. brian hook spoke thursday after his appointment. >> the iran regime has been a force for stability and violence. our new strategy addresses all manifestations of the iranian threat and the new iran action group will be focused on implementing that strategy. amy: in massachusetts, the boston globe has stepped up security at its offices after a building manager reported several threatening phone calls on thursday, including a bomb threat. the threats came as president trump singled out the boston globe on twitter after the paper's editorial board led hundreds of media outlets in a coordinated series of ededitoris thursday condemning trump's attacks on the free

noticed as the administration just the other day announced the formation of what it's calling an iran action group it has the goal of driving administration policy in washington and overseas to change iran's behavior this is what the u.s. secretary of state had to say president represents a tutor a good bit of pressure deterrence and solidarity with the long suffering iranian people our hope is that one day soon we can reach a new agreement with iran but we must see major changes in the regimes behavior both inside and outside of its borders the way people in the world are demanding that iran finally act like a normal nation. and the iranian speaker of parliament ali larijani had a response to that he said how dare you talk about the freedom of the iranian nation with your dark record of the august nineteenth coup and the appointment of a puppet totalitarian regime americans are imposing sanctions but they claim they are supporting freedom human rights and global and regional security well the u.s. state department says the timing of this announcement on the anniversary of that who is pure coincid

pump has formed a special group that will cause an eight washington's policy on iran that says it continues to pressure the country with sanctions the heads of the iran action group will be brian hook the state department's director of policy planning he says the u.s. is prepared to sanction any country trading with iran in our sanctions regime yes we will we are prepared to impose secondary sanctions on regimes i'm sorry on on other governments. that continue this sort of trade with iran for those sanctions will come into effect on november fifth those will include sanctions on iran's energy sector transactions by foreign financial institutions with the central bank of iran iran's shipping and ship building sectors among others the first round if new and here on sanctions when i acted earlier this month after president trump announced a u.s. withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal the sanctions prohibits iran from using the u.s. dollar and mistakes trading in precious metals it's also limits iranian currency flows as well as imposing constraints on the also trades the u.s. move is widely opposed by european countries could have a africa before my advice is t

pompei was formed a special group that will coordinate washington's policy on iran that says it continues to pressure the country with sanctions the head of the iran action group will be brian hook the state department's director of policy planning he says the u.s. is prepared to sanction any country trading with around in our sanctions regime yes we will we are prepared to impose secondary sanctions on regimes i'm sorry on on other governments. the continue the sort of trade with iran or those sanctions will come into effect on november fifth those will include sanctions on iran's energy sector transactions by foreign financial institutions with the central bank of iran iran's shipping and ship building sectors among others. the first rounds of new and here on sanctions were enacted earlier this month after president trump announced u.s. withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal the sanctions prohibits iran from using the us dollar and mistreats trading in precious metals it's also limits iranian currency flows as well as imposing constraints on me also trade the u.s. move is widely a post by european countries because they are friends c.r.p. former adviser

secretary of state mike pompei o has unveiled what is being called the iran action group trying to make certain that all parts of the u.s. government.

pump a has formed a special group that will cause an ace washington's policy on iran that says it continues to pressure the country with sanctions the heads of the iran action group will be bryan hook in the state department's director of policy planning he says the u.s. is prepared to sanction any country trading with iran and our sanctions regime yes we will we are prepared to impose secondary sanctions on regimes i'm sorry on on other governments. that continue the sort of trade with iran or those sanctions will come into effect on november fifth those will include sanctions on iran's energy sector transactions by foreign financial institutions with the central bank of iran iran shipping in shipbuilding sectors among others. the first rounds new and here on sanctions were enacted as a earlier this month after president trump an ounce to u.s. withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal the sanctions prohibits iran from using the us dollar and mistreats trading in precious metals it's also limits the rainy and currency flows as well as imposing constraints on the also trade the u.s. navy is widely opposed by european countries. have a afra c.r.p. former advisor

secretary of state mike pompei o has unveiled what is being called the iran action group trying to make certain that all parts of the u.s. government are working on a strategy to compel iran to give up.

secretary of state announced the formation of an iran action group designed to spearhead a wider scale u.s. government effort against tehran one israeli analyst says it's a sign that the u.s. would not be willing to give up its own military presence in eastern syria if that is what russia is seeking the americans officially have already admitted that they're trying to interdict weapons going through. syria to iran and iran to hezbollah that they're already doing some sort of indirect action so i think there's already a hint that america is not only staying in syria but it's becoming more of an iran focused mission ok thank you john bolton his next stop is geneva where he's due to meet his russian opposite number three fourths it was jerusalem israel has approved plans to build just a very thousand new settlement homes in the occupied west bank the latest in an acceleration of the controversial building program since donald trump became a u.s. president israeli settlements on palestinian land a violation of international law and considered by most of the international community to be an

of dollars and we need to get at drying up those revenue streams so far the beggar's of the iran action group is a very small one the ministration wasn't ready to unveil those daves on thursday however brian hook did tell reporters that this is a key policy initiative of the trumpet astray should and that they are committed to trying to get iran to change its political and security ways we've been speaking to treat a policy who's from the national iranian american council. what we're seeing here is the continuation of the escalator tory plan that the trump in the situation put in place on day one when the into the white house which is some form of confrontation with iran the talking point is that this is just about changing behavior there's even an offer to talk on the table but everything the trump administration is doing is very clearly pointing towards a demand for iran carrots elation which will happen which as a result very likely will either lead to some form of direct confrontation with iran or efforts by the united states to destabilize iraq on the trunk ministration is on record admi

secretary of state announces a new action group to run policy with iran after u.s. withdrawal from the nuclear deal. now i maryam namazie this is al jazeera live from london also coming up we are not going to the media strikes back against attacks by donald trump but he insists much of what the press says is fake news.

secretary of state announced the formation of an iran action group designed to spearhead a wider scale u.s. government effort against tehran one israeli analyst says it's a sign that the u.s. would not be willing to give up its own military presence in eastern syria if that is what russia is seeking the americans officially have already admitted that they're trying to interdict weapons going through. syria to iran and iran to hezbollah that they're already doing some sort of indirect action so i think there's already a hint that america's lonely staying in syria but it's becoming more of an iran focused mission ok thank you john bolton his next stop is geneva where he's due to meet his russian opposite number three fourths it was jerusalem. i'm now joined by ali then to national crisis group's iran project director and one of the world's leading authorities on iran's nuclear program is joining us from washington d.c. good to have you on with us now let's talk about what bolton has been saying they say they're going to the u.s. wants to ramp up pressure on iran not necessarily talking a

secretary pompeo announced the iran action group. he calls it a whole government effort to change the iran ran regime's behavior. he's kind of hinting at something there. but it's basically to get all the different agencies involved in what they can do to help the people take their country back from the murderous regime. charles: do we walk a fine line with changing behavior and regime change? >> this regime can't change its behavior because then it would fall. the reason that it has these laws that womb convenient to wear the hijab. that's an excuse to place its secret this throughout country and use that as an excuse to intimidate people. the e.u. complained about a human rights lawyer for protesting by take their hijabs off. she was arrested months ago and the e.u. is finally waking up and saying this is unacceptable. the regime is not just going after the women, they are going after the lawyers who are helping them. it uses women and other groups as a scapegoat. it's not interested in helping the people of its own country. charles

secretary of state mike pompeo just moments ago announced a new group to lead the united states policy on iran. the so-called iran action group. secretary pompeo said the group will be focused on changing the regime's behavior. >> president trump has instituted a campaign of pressure, deterrence and solidarity with a long suffering iranian people. our hop is that one day soon we can preach a knew agreement with iran we must see major changes in behavior both inside and outside of the borders. too many people in the world are demanding that iran finally act like a normal nation. >> shepard: president trump announced three months ago that the united states would pull out of the iran nuclear deal. then just last week, the administration reimposed some sanctions on that country. and in november, the u.s. can add even more. this coming november, targeting iran's oil industry. in a cabinet meeting today the treasury secretary steve mnuchin talked about the financial punishment. >> the rollout of the iran nuclear sanctions is going extremely well. we're working closely with secretary pompeo, strongest sanctions in preventing t

they just created something last week something called the iran action group which had a reminiscence of back in the early 2000s before the invasion of iraq, a group that was designed to get iran to, quote, change its behavior in many different ways. that unfortunately many thought failed, overlapping the sixth anniversary of the u.s.-backed coup against democratically elected government here inside iran. the pressure grows on both sides certainly. and i think at this point there's a sense of exasperation that that very intricately, carefully fashioned nuclear deal was simply thrown out the window by donald trump. in fact, mr. zarif wasn't even sure how many current top-level u.s. officials in the white house had read its final print. it was complicated, took years to put together. so i think really his belief is they're to go back and instate that and then there may be a future. but you have to bear in mind the slightly haphazard world of donald trump's diplomacy, one on one he prefers, it may field something in the future but we got the impression here that the iranian government fe

. >> new weapon the state department that is created the iran action group to continue to pressure iran about that former connecticut senator united against nuclear iran chairman, council joe lieberman great to see you. >> thank you so much for joining us your thoughts, on the formation of this iran action group? >> it is the latest positive strong step by trump administration to change our policy toward iran when was not working in other words, the basic thrust of policy as adopted by congress and presidents for lot of years was squeeze that country economically so we get them to stop building nuclear weapons, that could hit us with their new missiles, and iran nuclear agreement didn't do that i give the president trump a lot of credit for pulling out of it. but now he's developed a policy center which is going to keep the pressure on iran but also be open if they come to their senses, and really want to negotiate a better agreement that stops the development of nuclear weapons and missiles. maria: under the obama era, iran nuclear deal, u.s. sanctions have been listed now we know last

pompeo at the state department right now as he announces the creation of what is being called the iran action groupministration re-imposing sanctions after withdrawing from the nuclear deal. live from the state department. >> good afternoon, dana, officials say that this is a way for the state department to coordinate its efforts to try to respond to iran, tried to pressure iran, leading the group will be brian hook. he is the director of policy planning here. and he is the one who is negotiating with the european allies to try to keep the united states in the iran nuclear deal. that effort failed, and then he took over this new effort to try to convince countries and companies against doing business with iran. they have called at the road-show. and officials say that they have met with about 20 different countries to try to convince them to cut off their business ties. the u.s. started re-imposing sanctions against them earlier this month on august 6. that effort will increase in november with banking sector sanctions, but there is a major problem with the u.s. policy, that european allies are tel

secretary of state announced the formation of an iran action group designed to spearhead a wider scale u.s. government effort against tehran one israeli analyst says it's a sign that the u.s. would not be willing to give up its own military presence in eastern syria if that is what russia is seeking the americans officially have already admitted that they're trying to interdict weapons going through. syria to iran and iran to hezbollah or that they're already doing some sort of indirect action so i think there's already a hint that america is not only staying in syria but it's becoming more of an iran focused mission ok thank you john bolton his next stop is geneva where he's due to meet his russian opposite number three fourths it was jerusalem israel has approved plans to build more than a thousand new settlement homes in the occupied west bank israeli settlements on palestinian land are a violation of international law we considered by most of the international community to be an impediment to peace efforts around six hundred thousand settlers in the occupied west bank and east jeru

the state department is consolidating efforts in iran creating an action group to cut off iran's economyrob the iranian regime of funding. >> iran uses so much commercial revenue to finance terrorism around the world and our whole campaign of maximum economic pressure is to deny iran the money it needs to feel terrorism, the nuclear missile program and other activities which destabilize the middle east, make it more violent and less people. >> reporter: now that the united states is out of the iran nuclear agreement the trump administration has been restoring sanctions the us once lifted as part of the nuclear deal. in november the treasury department says it will reinstate major sanctions on the banking and oil businesses. officials say they are prepared to penalize other countries, even allies who refuse to comply with sanctions leading to a rift with the european union. european governments oppose the withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal, they are trying to hold the agreement together without the us and telling european companies to ignore us sanctions and continue conducting busines

secretary of state has announced a new action group to run its policy on iran after president trump withdrew from the nuclear deal in may this year might have says the group will report directly to the state department and will record all iran related activity which he described as violent and destabilizing for nearly forty years the regime in tehran has been responsible for a torrent of violent and destabilizing behavior against the united states our allies our partners and indeed the iranian people themselves in may of this year president trump withdrew from the flawed iran nuclear deal which built to restrain iran's nuclear progress or its campaigns of violence abroad in its place president representative getting a pressure deterrence and solidarity with the long suffering iranian people our hope is that one day soon we can reach a new agreement with iran but we must see major changes in the regimes behavior both inside and outside of its borders hundreds of u.s. newspapers have published coordinated editorials criticizing the u.s. president for a so-called dirty war on the press the bost

secretary of state has announced a new action group to run its policy on iran after president trump withdrew from the nuclear deal in may this year might have says the group will report directly to the state department and will record all iran related activity which he described as violent and destabilizing for nearly forty years the regime in tehran has been responsible for a torrent of violent and destabilizing behavior against the united states our allies our partners and indeed the iranian people themselves in may of this year president trump withdrew.

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