Pentagon identifying new areas to pressure Iran, reviewing plans
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The US military said on Friday it was reviewing the "entire breadth" of its security cooperation activities, force posture and plans to support President Donald Trump's new strategy on Iran, which promises a far more confrontational approach.
Trump announced the major shift in US policy in a speech that promised to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and address its support for extremist groups in the Middle East.
Major Adrian Rankine-Galloway, a Pentagon spokesman, told Reuters the Pentagon was assessing the positioning of its forces as well as planning but offered few details.
"We are identifying new areas where we will work with allies to put pressure on the Iranian regime, neutralize its destabilizing influences, and constrain its aggressive power projection, particularly its support for terrorist groups and militants," he said.
The Pentagon has long singled out Iran for activities in the region that it views as destabilizing, and on Friday listed eight such areas. Those included:
* Ballistic missile development and proliferation
* Threatening freedom of navigation, particularly in the Gulf
* Cyber-attacks against the United States, Israel, and America's allies and partners in the Gulf
* Unrelenting hostility to Israel
