With so much effort already being expended on trying to sell the rest of the world on the Trump Administration’s anti-Iran positions, the State Department announced on Thursday that it is appointing Brian Hook as the special representative for Iran.
Hook is one of the top policy advisers within the State Department, and before the US withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal he had been advising the administration to work on getting addendum to the nuclear deal as opposed to withdrawing.
The new position will head the Iran Action Group, and will be intended to coordinate all anti-Iran actions taken by the US State Department worldwide. That’s already a substantial number of actions, but the creation of this new group and new position suggests that the amount of effort dedicated this will be growing.
At present, most of the US diplomatic actions on Iran center on trying to sell the rest of the world on complying with US sanctions. This is likely to continue to be the focus, though a number of nations, including China and the European Union have rejected these demands.
Iran will never come on bended-knee before the US, no matter what.
Hook has strong connections with the neo con crazies out there-he was advisor to romney and rubio and founded the ultra interventionist group: john hay initiative-not expecting much from him and this Iran Action Group other than the standard zionist line.
https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/john_hay_initiative/
As shown in this article, U.S. taxpayers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to push Iran into Washington’s version of democracy:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.ca/2018/04/iran-united-states-and-imposition-of.html
And yet Washington complains that Russia interferes in elections.
“…to sell the rest of the world on complying with US sanctions”.
Must be a misprint. Washington doesn’t “sell” to the rest of the world. Nobody would buy. Washington TELLS the rest of the world to comply, or else.