{"id":5786,"date":"2019-06-19T07:32:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T05:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=5786"},"modified":"2019-06-19T07:32:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T05:32:12","slug":"pompeo-visits-centcom-amid-mixed-messaging-from-us-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=5786","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo visits CENTCOM amid mixed messaging from US on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2019\/06\/pompeo-centcom-trump-messaging-iran.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Al-Monitor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pompeo, speaking in Tampa today shortly before Shanahan\u2019s nomination was pulled, gave no indication he was auditioning for the Pentagon chief job. But it was unusual for a secretary of state to visit a US military command without a Defense Department civilian counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration\u2019s episodic messaging, one day emphasizing the Iranian threat, the next projecting desire to de-escalate tensions, is not perfect, one senior US administration official, speaking not for attribution, acknowledged to Al-Monitor.<\/p>\n<p>More broadly, Trump does not seem to know what a serious negotiation strategy with Iran would entail, or how to get to one, said Dalia Dassa Kaye, the director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the Rand Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a disconnect between [US Iran] policy on the ground, and the episodic messaging that Trump wants to talk,\u201d Kaye told Al-Monitor. \u201cThere seems to be a lot of confusion about how you get from Point A to Point B.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t know either,\u201d said former State Department Iran negotiator Richard Nephew of the administration\u2019s signalling regarding its intentions on Iran. \u201cThey have five different policies per four principals.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Monitor: Pompeo, speaking in Tampa today shortly before Shanahan\u2019s nomination was pulled, gave no indication he was auditioning for the Pentagon chief job. But it was unusual for a secretary of state to visit a US military command without a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=5786\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}