{"id":373697,"date":"2018-08-17T00:12:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T23:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-forms-iran-action-group-to-run-aggressive-policy\/"},"modified":"2018-08-17T00:12:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T23:12:15","slug":"presstv-us-forms-iran-action-group-to-run-aggressive-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-forms-iran-action-group-to-run-aggressive-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US forms \u2018Iran Action Group\u2019 to run aggressive policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US State Department has formed an \u201cIran Action Group\u201d to coordinate and run an aggressive US policy toward the Islamic Republic on the eve of the 65th anniversary of a previous American action against Iran &#8211; the CIA-led 1953 coup against the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the creation of the \u201cIran Action Group\u201d on Thursday, saying that the initiative would be &#8220;directing, reviewing and coordinating all aspects of the State Department&#8217;s Iran-related activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group will be headed by senior policy adviser Brian Hook, who is currently the State Department&#8217;s director of policy planning. He will report directly to Pomepo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our hope is that one day soon we can reach an agreement with Iran but we must see major changes in the regime both inside and outside of its borders,&#8221; Pompeo said in a brief address at the State Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian people and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/16\/571396\/US-forms-Iran-Action-Group-to-run-aggressive-policy-toward-Tehran\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department has formed an \u201cIran Action Group\u201d to coordinate and run an aggressive US policy toward the Islamic Republic on the eve of the 65th anniversary of a previous American action against Iran &#8211; the CIA-led 1953 coup against the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}