"Iran should join its neighbors who are embracing a better future...If Iran is willing to choose the path of peace, America will walk beside it"
"The regime would have even more money...all of the elements of the terror sate would have been enhanced" had US continued w/the #JCPOA, per @SecPompeo
"#Iran again has been squeezed" per National Security Adviser @robertcobrien "These sanctions will further enhance peace in the region by denying funds to the Iranians"
Iran "could be a beacon in the Middle East" he says, if only #Tehran would change its behavior
"We feel very confident in regards to our preparedness and readiness" says @EsperDoD of US troop posture in the Middle East re: #Iran snapback sanctons
"The country that is isolated today is not the UnitedStates but #Iran" per @SecPompeo
"I wish that they would join us in this," Pompeo says of the #E3 "The European people will be safer as a result of the actions the United States has taken today"
"When we launched the maximum pressure campaign back in 2018 under President Trump's leadership, the critics said it wouldn't work. They were wrong..." per @SecPompeo
"Our sanctions have saved countless Muslim, Jewish & Christian lives by denying #Tehran access to more than $70 billion that could have otherwise gone to terror"per @SecPompeo "We've done this all while keeping a channel open for humanitarian trade and assistance"
"As we are demonstrating today, we'll keep it up until the #Iran|ian regime comes to the table & accepts a real deal for changing its behavior" per @SecPompeo on sanctions
"The American people should know that we will always put their safety first"
"The administration will not allow Iran to endanger the rest of the world with a fresh supply of ballistic missiles & conventional arms" per @USTreasury Sec Mnuchin, announcing sanctions vs the the Atomic Energy Organization of #Iran...
Fuller quote: "The United States is taking another important step to both protect the American people & deter #Iran|ian aggression against our troops, our interests & our allies & partners" per @EsperDoD
"We stand ready to respond to future #Iran|ian aggression & we remain committed to doing our part in the administration's maximum pressure campaign" per @EsperDoD
"Today's executive order will further disrupt #Iran|ian efforts to import & proliferate conventional weapons, helping protect US forces, our allies & partners & civilian populations until Iran complies w/international norms" per @EsperDoD
"We encourage #Tehran to cease its malign activities throughout the region & to act like a normal country" per @EsperDoD "But we're also prepared to respond to Iranian aggression...Our commanders have the authorities & resources they need to protect their troops..."
"We don't need a cheering section to validate our moral compass" per @USAmbUN re #Iran sanctions
"We do not find comfort based solely on numbers, particularly when the majority has found themselves in an uncomfortable position of under writing terrorism, chaos & conflict"
"The #UnitedStates will do everything necessary to ensure that the Islamic Republic of #Iran, the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, cannot inflict even greater harm on the world w/more deadly weapons" per @USAmbUN
"We are doing this for peace..."
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Pentagon assesses since February 2022, Russia's suffered 600,000 casualties
This September, "Russian forces sustained more casualties in terms of both killed & wounded in action than in any other month" per a sr US defense official
"#Russia|n losses, again, both killed & wounded in action in just the 1st year of the war exceeded the total of all Russian losses or Soviet losses in any conflict since World War Two combined" per sr US defense official
#Ukraine "have sunk, destroyed or damaged at least 32 medium to large #Russia|n Federation navy vessels in the #BlackSea" per sr US defense official
NEW: US charges American TV presenter for Channel One #Russia & his wife in scheme to evade US sanctions
@TheJusticeDept unsealed the indictment vs 76yo Dimitri Simes & 55yo Anastasia Simes Thursday
They have a home in #Virginia but "remain at large...believed to be in Russia"
Dimitri & Anastasia Simes each charged w/1 count of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), 1 count of violating the IEEPA & 1 count of conspiracy to commit int'l money laundering
Per @TheJusticeDept, it's a maximum of 20 years per count
Dimitri Simes alleged to have violated sanctions by "serving as a presenter & producer of programming, & by receiving over $1 million, a personal car & driver, a stipend for an apartment in #Moscow... a team of 10 employees from Channel One Russia" per DOJ
Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash & Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi were charged in June 2008 & then again in May 2012 for their alleged roles in planning the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on #NewYork's World Trade Center & the Pentagon
JUST IN: US issues new National Counterintelligence Strategy
Updated strategy, signed by @POTUS Thursday, based on 3 pillars, per @NCSCgov:
-outmaneuver/constrain foreign intelligence entities
-protect US strategic advantages
-invest in the future
"Foreign intelligence and security services & their proxies persist in seeking to acquire our most
sensitive information, technology, and intellectual property" per @POTUS in the just-released strategy
"Non-state actors are following suit"
Foreign intelligence entities "also seeking to take advantage of the proliferation of commercially available tools to conduct surveillance; collect vast amounts of previously unavailable personal data;
& position themselves to disrupt our infrastructure..." per @POTUS