Pompeo heads to Saudi Arabia and UAE and renews readiness for dialogue with Iran

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he would go to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and reiterated his offer to negotiate with Iran after US President Donald Trump said he did not want to go to war. Iranian President Hassan Rowhani called on the international community to respond to "American violations."

Bombay told reporters before his flight on Sunday that his visit to Saudi Arabia and the UAE was aimed at confirming strategic alliances, reiterating that he was confident that once Iran was ready to "unconditionally" communicate with Washington, the American side would be able to start these Discussions.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a statement that he said that a US plane entered Iranian airspace in May. "You have seen the map similar to the drawings of children presented by Zarif and completely contradict the superiority and professionalism of the US military and the intelligence services," Pompeo told reporters. The map "should not leave anyone in doubt about where that unarmed aircraft was."

Trump's remarks
Trump said in an interview with NBC that he did not want to go to war in the Middle East for oil, considering that the main concern is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Asked if the United States would withdraw from the region if that goal was met, Trump said he would protect Israel and also protect Saudi Arabia, because Riyadh spent four hundred billion dollars on arms purchases from his country.

Asked whether Saudi Arabia would pay for its protection from Iran, Trump said the process would be too costly and Saudi Crown Prince Prince Mohammed bin Salman had promised to pay in a conversation with him.

US Vice President Mike Pence said Trump doubted that top leaders in Iran had not agreed to drop the US aircraft on Thursday.

US national security adviser John Bolton said Iran should not confuse US "sanity" with weakness, ahead of his talks in Israel with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who welcomed Trump's announcement to increase pressure on Iran.

In Kuwait, Iran's special envoy to Iran, Brian Hawk, held talks during a tour of the region, saying Iran had been deprived of its revenue sources of selling oil, petrochemicals and metal trading, and there were no attempts to deliver indirect messages to Tehran.

During his talks, Hawk noted that he had supported President Trump's foreign policy.

The Iranian position
During his meeting with the head of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Gabriela Cuevas Baroun in Tehran, Rohani said that the "breakthrough" of the American plane, which was dropped by Iran on Thursday, to the atmosphere of Iran is the beginning of new tension in the region. For many countries, so we expect international entities to respond appropriately. "

Rohani said that the American military presence in the region is the root of the problems, especially in Syria, Yemen and Iraq.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said the US sanctions, which were supposed to be announced on Monday, were nothing more than new propaganda and accused the US administration of practicing economic terrorism against his country.

Letter to Europeans
On the other hand, the head of the Council for Strategic Foreign Relations Kamal Kharrazi after meeting with British Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Morrison that Iran will seriously implement the decision to reduce its commitments in the nuclear agreement, in the event of the implementation of Iran's requests by European countries, within the 60 days that Announced by Iran in May.

Kharrazi added that the British official told him that the European financial mechanism will be activated soon, that Britain supports the nuclear agreement, and has problems with the United States in this regard.