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US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo managed to squeeze in a tour which took in eight Middle Eastern countries in the space of a week earlier this month, summing up his mission in a speech in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, as “the need to counter the greatest threat of all in the Middle East, the Iranian regime and its campaigns of terrorism and destruction.”
Pompeo’s aim has been to build a coalition of the willing in the Middle East with the ostensible aim of rolling back Iranian influence in the region, for which can be read asserting US dominance wherever possible.
While the United States has clear allegiances with both Saudi Arabia and Israel in the region its influence elsewhere has been diminished due to its history of military and economic intervention. The Iranian regime is an easy target because of its history of opposition to the United States, its support amongst the Shia Muslims in the region, in opposition to Sunni-led Saudi Arabia, and its adventurous foreign policy which the US can characterise as a threat.
Pompeo’s message appears to have been well received among Sunni Arab leaders, with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi saying in a news conference with Pompeo in Amman:
“We all have problems with Iran’s expansionist policies in the region. All Arab countries, and I think the United States too, would want healthy relations based on the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of the other, and respecting the sovereignty of other countries.”
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