The group will coordinate and run policy toward Iran as the administration moves ahead with its plans after withdrawing from the international nuclear pact

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is forming a special group to coordinate and run U.S. policy toward Iran as the Trump administration moves ahead with efforts to force changes in the Islamic Republic's behavior after withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal.

Trump's comments come as part of a campaign meant to foment unrest and pressure Iran to end its nuclear programme.

IRAN’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stated his decision to permit discussions which led to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was a “mistake”, amid an ongoing row surrounding the US’s reimposition of sanctions against the Middle Eastern nation.

DONALD Trump has been slated by Iran for “behaving like a mafia boss” as tensions over the US imposing crippling economic sanctions on the Gulf state reach breaking point.

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International sanctions on Iran were lifted when the pact with world powers came into force in 2016, but the expected level of foreign investment to help revive the economy has never materialised.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has admitted he made a mistake in allowing the country's foreign minister to speak to his U.S. counterpart during negotiations that led to a 2015 international nuclear agreement.

The United States's actions on Iran are nothing to be proud of, says Prof Mohammad Marandi.

Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling For thousands of years, countries and imperial powers have sought narrow channels which connect two larger bodies of water. They’ve also gone to war over these valuable waterways to boost imports or gain a strategic military and naval advantage. Known as chokepoints, the Straits of Hormuz and Taiwan are no exception. Given the ever-growing tensions between Iran and the U.S. over a nuclear treaty and sanctions, or China and the U.S. over Taiwan and tariffs and the South China Sea, these valuable trading routes that save vessels from traveling thousands of miles may be more than just an exception. They may soon, in fact, be the rule that haunts a...