{"id":74792,"date":"2019-04-29T12:40:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T17:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=74792"},"modified":"2019-04-29T12:41:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T17:41:33","slug":"general-says-us-will-ensure-resources-needed-to-counter-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2019\/04\/29\/general-says-us-will-ensure-resources-needed-to-counter-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"General Says US Will Ensure Resources Needed to Counter Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dateline\">VOA <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->U.S. Central Command chief Gen. Kenneth McKenzie said Saturday that the United States would deploy the necessary resources to counter any dangerous actions by Iran, Sky News Arabia reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to continue to reach out to our partners and friends in the region to ensure that we make common cause against the threat of Iran,&#8221; McKenzie, on an official visit to the Gulf region, was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe we&#8217;ll have the resources necessary to deter Iran from taking actions that will be dangerous,&#8221; he said, according to a transcript released by the Abu Dhabi-based channel. &#8220;We will be able to respond effectively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen since the Trump administration last year withdrew from an international nuclear deal with Iran and began ratcheting up sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the United States blacklisted Iran&#8217;s elite Revolutionary Guards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sanctions for oil purchases<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washington on Monday demanded buyers of Iranian oil stop purchases by May or face sanctions, ending six months of waivers that allowed Iran&#8217;s eight biggest buyers, most of them in Asia, to continue importing limited volumes.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and some senior military commanders have threatened to disrupt oil shipments from Gulf countries if Washington tries to strangle Tehran oil exports.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie also said a reduction of U.S. troops in Syria would be done cautiously.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the long term, we&#8217;re going to reduce our forces in Syria. We recognize that; that&#8217;s the guidance in which we are operating. That will be something that we will look at very carefully as we go forward,&#8221; the general said.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal of U.S. troops Syria in December after he said they had defeated Islamic State militants there. In February, a senior administration official said the United States would leave about 400 U.S. troops split between two different regions of Syria.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie also said he was confident that the U.S. is going to have &#8220;a long-term presence in Iraq, focused on the counterterror mission.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recposts"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}