“Iran Action Group.”
Nice name. Doesn’t suggest anything at all.
Is State the only agency involved? Or has Defense been invited to the party?
Also known as the “what the Hell do we do now” group.
Why do they need to gather a bunch of knuckle draggers when it’s already decided to bomb Iran? Oh I get it, it’s part of the Wingnut Welfare Network.
“Hook is expected to be replaced in that job by Kiron Skinner.”
“Skinner plans to condition Iran’s behavior by placing it in a small box with a lever to dispense food pellets.”
(Apologies to Psych majors.)
A little bit late on that, IMHO…
efforts to force changes in the Islamic Republic’s behavior after withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal.
Pompeo and his knuckleheads recognize that Iran is a sovereign State and doesn’t answer to them, right? What changes could they possibly implement, enforce and render penalty for failure to adhere?
I’m pretty sure the main focus of this group will be bribing and begging other countries to go along with their insanity. Not surprisingly all of the major players whose cooperation they need have already told them to “FO&D” or words to that effect.
Expect a triumphant announcement in the near future that “Eritrea has joined us.”
He couldn’t form a ball out of clay …
A beach blow up … maybe ----
He’s been workin’ on the pucker —
Ah taking a chapter out of the Cheney “My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators” Iraqi playbook and creating an insolent State Department to fabricate the “means” towards the “end” which is a plan to invade Iran.
They sure aren’t very creative nor strategic in there disclosure of what this “group” is being tasked with are they…
You mean the US’s failure to adhere to the agreement it signed? As far as I’ve heard, Iran is still abiding by the deal, as are the rest of the countries that signed it.
So what this means, translated from the AP stenography, is that the US deliberately gave up its most powerful tool for changing Iran’s behavior and is now casting about for something else.
The “Iran Action Group” sounds remarkably like the “Iraq Study Group”. Of course, the ISG was post-invasion and was meant to determine how the Iraq War went from “Mission Accomplished” after three months to “We really didn’t see the insurgency coming” after three years.
Of course, Pomposo’s group is dedicated to “action” rather than “study” so presumably it is tasked with determining how to justify a war against Iran rather than determining how the Iraq War became such a colossal fuck-up.
In any case, an “Iran Action Group” does not augur well for either the United States or Iran.
maybe, but i bet a lot of oil execs and weapons contractors have
the whole administration really should be wrapping up their personal affairs instead of pretending they’re going to be in power long enough to do anything further - the whole lot of them will be in GTMO serving time soon
Hmmm, “Iran Action Group”.
This sounds suspiciously like the group that Dick Cheney put together to manufacture false information to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
I’ll bet real money it’s got the exact same goal; War with Iran (probably sometime in, say, Late October, 2018, just before the Mid-Terms?)
This ought to be a dilly…the former action group consisted of our international allies in a tightly controlled treaty that exists to this day without our participation.onward and upward!