{"id":183401,"date":"2019-02-07T05:40:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T05:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183401"},"modified":"2019-02-09T05:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T05:01:50","slug":"several-countries-to-announce-plans-to-be-part-of-alliance-against-iran-pompeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183401","title":{"rendered":"Several Countries Plan to Be Part of Alliance Against Iran – Pompeo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sputnik News \u2013 Feb 6, 2019<\/h1>\n

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The US announced plans to withdraw its troops from Syria in December 2018, with President Donald Trump saying that American troops had succeeded in eliminating Daesh* in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

US Secretary of\u00a0State Mike Pompeo announced <\/a><\/strong><\/span>on\u00a06 February that several Middle East countries would soon announce plans to\u00a0take part in\u00a0a NATO-type alliance to\u00a0counter Iran.\u00a0He said that negotiations regarding the matter are “continuing to\u00a0advance” and added that participants will “develop an outline that is not reactive”.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We’ll develop a strategic framework which will keep the Middle East more stable in\u00a0the years to\u00a0come”, Pompeo added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pompeo was adamant that the alliance would eventually be created, noting that Middle Eastern states understand that such move would be in\u00a0their interest.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Fighting Daesh*<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Pompeo also assured that the US will continue to\u00a0combat Daesh*, despite\u00a0the withdrawal from\u00a0Syria.\u00a0He added that the world is entering an era of “decentralized Jihad” and thus needs to\u00a0adapt to\u00a0fight it in\u00a0a new way.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The US troops withdrawing from\u00a0Syria is not the end of\u00a0America’s fight. The drawdown in\u00a0troops is essentially a tactical change, it is not a change in\u00a0the mission. It simply represents a new stage in\u00a0an old fight”, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The secretary of\u00a0state also urged American coalition partners to\u00a0do more to\u00a0combat the terrorist organisation by\u00a0providing financial assistance to\u00a0Iraq and by\u00a0bringing home foreign Daesh* fighters, captured by\u00a0the US’ Kurdish allies, to\u00a0put them on\u00a0trial.<\/span><\/p>\n

Washington announced that it would be withdrawing its troops from\u00a0Syria in\u00a0December 2018. US President Donald Trump explained the pull-out by\u00a0stating that American troops had achieved their primary goal of\u00a0defeating Daesh* in\u00a0the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, recent reports by\u00a0Turkish media suggest that the US military contingent has grown since\u00a0the withdrawal announcement instead of\u00a0decreased.<\/span><\/p>\n

*Daesh (also known as\u00a0ISIS\/ISIL\/IS) is a terrorist organisation banned in\u00a0Russia<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iran has little to worry about. The alliance will likely include Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, both of which are struggling against ragtag guerrillas in Yemen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183401"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183419,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183401\/revisions\/183419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}