Washington,
\nDays after he listed out a set of 12 demands to Iranian regime including giving up its nuclear weapons ambition, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said meeting these \u201csimple requirements\u201d would benefit the Iranian people to an enormous extent.<\/p>\n
On Monday, in his first major foreign policy speech, Pompeo demanded that Iran give up its nuclear weapons ambition, stop its alleged destabilising behaviour in the region, and stop uranium enrichment, among other demands. He also sought the support of European allies and other global partners and friends, including India.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are a set of simple requirements that the Iranian regime could quite easily comply with, and it would benefit the Iranian people to an enormous extent,\u201d Pompeo told reporters at a State Department news conference yesterday.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrankly, what we laid out seemed like a pretty straightforward set of requirements that we would put on any country in the world \u2013 to stop malign behaviour that threatens other of its neighbours and other parts of the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Pompeo, in a major speech, threatened tougher sanctions against Iran.<\/p>\n
Sanctions that had been lifted under the Iran nuclear deal\u2014which America pulled out of early this month\u2014are due to go back into effect, and they are expected to pressure an already shaky economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is just the beginning. The sting of sanctions will be painful,\u201d Pompeo said before a packed house at the conservative Heritage Foundation, a top American think-tank.<\/p>\n
Interacting with reporters at the State Department, Pompeo re-emphasised that the tasks Iran needs to undertake aren\u2019t that difficult. \u201cI\u2019ve seen reports that these are a fantasy and they can\u2019t happen, but we ask for things that are really fairly simple that, frankly, most nations in the world engage in. We ask them to stop firing missiles into Riyadh,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not a fantasy to imagine the Iranians making a decision not to fire missiles into another nation and threatening American lives that travel through that airport. It\u2019s not a fantasy to ask them to cease engaging in terror. These were all a set of demands, the demands we put on the rest of the world,\u201d Pompeo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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