Iran Press/ America: "We'll be talking with them about how to make sure that we are all strategically aligned and how we can build out a global coalition" on Iran, Mike Pompeo said.
Pompeo repeated to reporters on Sunday that Washington wanted talks with Tehran.
“We’re prepared to negotiate with no preconditions,” he said.
Meanwhile, Pompeo said “significant” sanctions on Iran would be announced on Monday aimed at further choking off resources that Tehran uses to fund its activities in the region.
“We are going to deny them the resources they need to do that, thereby keeping American interests and American people safe all around the world,” Pompeo said before leaving to travel for talks on Iran with US allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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Iran shot down a US Global Hawk drone on Thursday, after it had violated its airspace near the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
An intruding American spy drone has been shot down in Iran's southern coastal province of Hormozgan. Iran also refrained from shooting down a US plane with 35 people on board that was accompanying the US spy drone.
Iran’s foreign minister on June 20 said on Twitter that the coordinates of downed US military drone shows that drone had taken off from the UAE and violated Iranian airspace, then targeted at the coordinates (25°59’43”N 57°02’25”E) near Kouh Mobarak inside Iranian territorial waters.
At 00:14 US drone took off from UAE in stealth mode & violated Iranian airspace. It was targeted at 04:05 at the coordinates (25°59'43"N 57°02'25"E) near Kouh Mobarak.We've retrieved sections of the US military drone in OUR territorial waters where it was shot down.
The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) had announced in a statement early Thursday that the US-made Global Hawk surveillance drone was brought down by its Air Force near the Kouh Mobarak region near the southern port city of Jask after the aircraft violated Iran's airspace.
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