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Today's actions follow a series of aggressive behaviors by the Iranian regime in recent weeks, including shooting down of President Donald Trump drones, the supreme leader of Iran is one who ultimately is responsible of the hostile conduct of the regime. He's respected within his country. His office oversees the regime's most brutal instruments including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Energy and( Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) sanctions from April and May provoked a very powerful Iranian response and tipped this confrontation and tensions into a more military sphere. Now the pressure levers are military pressure levers, so the key parties in the escalation relationship are the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and The US military. – Liz Rosenberg	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are out of the realm of focusing squarely on the US Treasury or the Iranian central bank governor or Iran's oil minister. It does seem a bit of an afterthought, which is oddly misplaced, to discuss the power of sanctions when there is no meaningful new economic measure that will create a powerful new impact at this point. – Liz Rosenberg	Found on CNN 4 years ago
So heres what to watch for. If the Iranians follow through on their threat to starting reaching again at higher levels to basically take their enrichment program to a kind of a nuclear level in terms of a weapons grade production, Israels in a world of hurt, so the best thing the president can do is stop that. And how do you stop that to make Iran understand youre not going to let that happen? I think you should put their oil refineries on our target list, and that he should look at sinking the Iranian Navy if they attack shipping again. – Lindsey Graham	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I would think the Trump administration could -- if they choose -- cite the principle of self-defense under the UN Charter and conduct operations accordingly, but those operations would have to be proportional to the threat -- a threat that has now been made more challenging by the sophistication of Iranian air defenses. – John Kirby	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The United States is not seeking war with the Iranian regime. – John Bolton	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This was an unprovoked attack on a U.S. surveillance asset that had not violated Iranian airspace at any time during its mission, this attack is an attempt to disrupt our ability to monitor the area following recent threats to international shipping and free flow of commerce. – Joseph Guastella	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The recent Iranian attacks validate the reliable, credible intelligence we have received on hostile behavior by Iranian forces and their proxy groups that threaten United States personnel and interests across the region. – United States	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication. – Mike Pompeo	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Cumulatively, the fact that we had drawn down in (the Mideast) may have had an effect on Iranian behavior, we do know that bringing stuff back in seems to have had an effect on their behavior. – Frank McKenzie	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The absence of a firm deterrent stance against Iranian behavior is what led to the escalation we see today. – King Salman	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This Iranian active measures campaign shows that third-party adversaries have learned a lesson from 2016, disinformation works, and This Iranian active measures campaign works best when combining social media with old-school local newspaper outreach, whether this lesson is accurate is another question. – Thomas Rid	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have deterred attacks based on our reposturing of assets - deterred attacks against American forces. Our biggest focus at this point is to prevent Iranian miscalculation. – Patrick Shanahan	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
They explained to us how the Iranian threat streams were different than in the past, that the attack on the ships and the pipeline was coordinated and directed by the Iranian government, the ayatollah. – Lindsey Graham	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The president has been clear, the United States does not seek military conflict with Iran, and he is open to talks with Iranian leadership. However, Iran's default option for 40 years has been violence, and we will protect U.S. personnel and interests in the region. – Garrett Marquis	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
So whether its Iranian forces, or Chinese or Cubans, the President Donald Trump administration position is that they all need to cease having an impact in supporting embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and allowing the Venezuelan people not only to get their democracy back but give them an opportunity to rebuild this country that has tremendous wealth. – Venezuela Pompeo	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Weakness and irresolution can lead to more Iranian testing and meddling, not less. – Ben Talebu	Found on CNN 4 years ago
A highly deniable attack, such as the one on the hull of the tankers, would be entirely consistent with the past four decades of Iranian security strategy, which emphasizes increasing the challenges of attribution, overcoming conventional military weaknesses, and decreasing the prospects of escalation against the Iranian homeland for regime meddling. – Ben Talebu	Found on CNN 4 years ago
An adequate force posture can actually dampen Iranian escalation prospects, weakness and irresolution can lead to more Iranian testing and meddling, not less. – Ben Talebu	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think what we're seeing now is our own administration goading Iran into taking ill-advised and tremendously foolish actions that would provide them with justification to... use force against the Iranian regime. – Ben Talebu	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We made a mistake when we shut down our nuclear program. As an Iranian, I say that was a mistake. If we start again and they impose sanctions, then we can at least say we are under sanctions for the nuclear program, now we are wondering why we are under sanctions. We shut down the nuclear program, so why we are being punished with sanctions? – Ahmad Hashemi	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We have imposed the toughest sanctions ever on this Iranian regime. – Brian Hook	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The Iranian people and the world should know that today is not the end of the JCPOA, these are actions in line with the JCPOA. – Hassan Rouhani	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It is absolutely the case that we have seen escalatory actions from the Iranians and it is equally the case that we will hold the Iranians accountable for attacks on American interests, if these actions take place, if they do by some third-party proxy, a militia group, Hezbollah, we will hold the Iranian leadership directly accountable for that. – Mike Pompeo	Found on FOX News 4 years ago

Today's actions follow a series of aggressive behaviors by the Iranian regime in recent weeks, including shooting down of President Donald Trump drones, the supreme leader of Iran is one who ultimately is responsible of the hostile conduct of the regime. He's respected within his country. His office oversees the regime's most brutal instruments including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Energy and( Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) sanctions from April and May provoked a very powerful Iranian response and tipped this confrontation and tensions into a more military sphere. Now the pressure levers are military pressure levers, so the key parties in the escalation relationship are the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and The US military.

– Liz Rosenberg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are out of the realm of focusing squarely on the US Treasury or the Iranian central bank governor or Iran's oil minister. It does seem a bit of an afterthought, which is oddly misplaced, to discuss the power of sanctions when there is no meaningful new economic measure that will create a powerful new impact at this point.

– Liz Rosenberg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

So heres what to watch for. If the Iranians follow through on their threat to starting reaching again at higher levels to basically take their enrichment program to a kind of a nuclear level in terms of a weapons grade production, Israels in a world of hurt, so the best thing the president can do is stop that. And how do you stop that to make Iran understand youre not going to let that happen? I think you should put their oil refineries on our target list, and that he should look at sinking the Iranian Navy if they attack shipping again.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I would think the Trump administration could -- if they choose -- cite the principle of self-defense under the UN Charter and conduct operations accordingly, but those operations would have to be proportional to the threat -- a threat that has now been made more challenging by the sophistication of Iranian air defenses.

– John Kirby

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The United States is not seeking war with the Iranian regime.

– John Bolton

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This was an unprovoked attack on a U.S. surveillance asset that had not violated Iranian airspace at any time during its mission, this attack is an attempt to disrupt our ability to monitor the area following recent threats to international shipping and free flow of commerce.

– Joseph Guastella

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The recent Iranian attacks validate the reliable, credible intelligence we have received on hostile behavior by Iranian forces and their proxy groups that threaten United States personnel and interests across the region.

– United States

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Cumulatively, the fact that we had drawn down in (the Mideast) may have had an effect on Iranian behavior, we do know that bringing stuff back in seems to have had an effect on their behavior.

– Frank McKenzie

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The absence of a firm deterrent stance against Iranian behavior is what led to the escalation we see today.

– King Salman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This Iranian active measures campaign shows that third-party adversaries have learned a lesson from 2016, disinformation works, and This Iranian active measures campaign works best when combining social media with old-school local newspaper outreach, whether this lesson is accurate is another question.

– Thomas Rid

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have deterred attacks based on our reposturing of assets - deterred attacks against American forces. Our biggest focus at this point is to prevent Iranian miscalculation.

– Patrick Shanahan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

They explained to us how the Iranian threat streams were different than in the past, that the attack on the ships and the pipeline was coordinated and directed by the Iranian government, the ayatollah.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The president has been clear, the United States does not seek military conflict with Iran, and he is open to talks with Iranian leadership. However, Iran's default option for 40 years has been violence, and we will protect U.S. personnel and interests in the region.

– Garrett Marquis

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

So whether its Iranian forces, or Chinese or Cubans, the President Donald Trump administration position is that they all need to cease having an impact in supporting embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and allowing the Venezuelan people not only to get their democracy back but give them an opportunity to rebuild this country that has tremendous wealth.

– Venezuela Pompeo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Weakness and irresolution can lead to more Iranian testing and meddling, not less.

– Ben Talebu

Found on CNN
4 years ago

A highly deniable attack, such as the one on the hull of the tankers, would be entirely consistent with the past four decades of Iranian security strategy, which emphasizes increasing the challenges of attribution, overcoming conventional military weaknesses, and decreasing the prospects of escalation against the Iranian homeland for regime meddling.

– Ben Talebu

Found on CNN
4 years ago

An adequate force posture can actually dampen Iranian escalation prospects, weakness and irresolution can lead to more Iranian testing and meddling, not less.

– Ben Talebu

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think what we're seeing now is our own administration goading Iran into taking ill-advised and tremendously foolish actions that would provide them with justification to... use force against the Iranian regime.

– Ben Talebu

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We made a mistake when we shut down our nuclear program. As an Iranian, I say that was a mistake. If we start again and they impose sanctions, then we can at least say we are under sanctions for the nuclear program, now we are wondering why we are under sanctions. We shut down the nuclear program, so why we are being punished with sanctions?

– Ahmad Hashemi

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We have imposed the toughest sanctions ever on this Iranian regime.

– Brian Hook

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The Iranian people and the world should know that today is not the end of the JCPOA, these are actions in line with the JCPOA.

– Hassan Rouhani

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is absolutely the case that we have seen escalatory actions from the Iranians and it is equally the case that we will hold the Iranians accountable for attacks on American interests, if these actions take place, if they do by some third-party proxy, a militia group, Hezbollah, we will hold the Iranian leadership directly accountable for that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

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