US Wants to Work with Europeans on New Iran Deal: Pompeo

• US Wants to Work with Europeans on New Iran Deal: Pompeo
  by AFP, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington still wants to work with its European partners on an agreement to counter Iran’s “malign behavior” Sunday despite its withdrawal from a landmark nuclear deal.
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  President Donald Trump’s announcement last Tuesday that the US was exiting the 2015 nuclear accord was met with widespread dismay in Europe where companies now face the threat of sanctions if they do business with Iran.
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  But Pompeo said Washington was keen to thrash out a more wide-ranging deal with its allies as another top official said Iran had been “on the march” throughout the Middle East since the nuclear agreement was signed.
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  Pompeo, who is barely a fortnight into his new job, told Fox News Sunday that he had been tasked by the president “to work to strike a deal that achieves the outcomes that protect America.” “That’s what we are going to do and I will be hard at it with the Europeans in the next several days,” said the top US diplomat.
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  “I’m hopeful in the days and weeks ahead we can come up with a deal that really works, that really protects the world from Iranian bad behavior, not just their nuclear program, but their missiles and their malign behavior as well. “And I will work closely with the Europeans to try and achieve that.”
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