Convicted of 10 counts. is he probably looking at the same dozen years that really doesn t matter as much you get a couple convictions to get to sentencing. he is a 69-year-old guy who is looking at a lot of jail time. shepard: jeffrey cramer, thanks a lot. i appreciate it. certainly. shepard: some breaking news now on fox news channel. the secretary of state mike pompeo just moments ago announced a new group to lead the united states policy on iran. the so-called iran action group. secretary pompeo said the group will be focused on changing the regime s behavior. president trump has instituted a campaign of pressure, deterrence and solidarity with a long suffering iranian people. our hop is that one day soon we can preach a knew agreement with iran we must see major changes in behavior both inside and outside of the borders. too many people in the world are demanding that iran finally act like a normal nation. shepard: president trump announced three months ago that the unit
Then just last week, the administration reimposed some sanctions on that country. and in november, the u.s. can add even more. this coming november, targeting iran s oil industry. in a cabinet meeting today the treasury secretary steve mnuchin talked about the financial punishment. the rollout of the iran nuclear sanctions is going extremely well. we re working closely with secretary pompeo, strongest sanctions in preventing things there. shepard: the president warned our allies last week that any nation doing business with iran will not be doing business with the united states. european leaders say they will protect any europeans doing legitimate business with iran. the president of iran has said that he will not negotiate with the united states while sanctions are still on the table. and he warned the u.s. just last month war with iran would be the mother of all wars. president trump responded that another threat like that would result in consequences, quoting now, the likes of w
Throughout history have ever suffered before. rich edson is live at the state department. rich? shep, this is an effort here at the state department to consolidate the iran policy. it s an effort to try to convince companies and countries to stop doing business with iran. brian hook is a stop official here at the state department. is he going to lead this effort. he says the ultimate goal of iran is to get it to change its behavior. when you look at the kind of money that iran provides to assad and to she shia milit. hook is already leading the effort to convince those countries to cut off iran. the problem for the administration is that in particular, the european countries have told their companies to continue doing business with iran, to defy these new reimposed u.s. sanctions. the europeans are trying to hold the iran nuclear
Agreement together. they want the ability to be able to tell their companies they can conduct business as was allowed under the iran nuclear deal and they are trying to move this forward without the u.s. so there is an amount of friction and a significant amount upon u.s. and europe on, this shep. there is escalating fight now with turkey. there is. the treasury secretary and the president of the united states have just said you don t release pastor brun son who has been jailed in turkey for the past couple of years, we are going to increase sanctions against you. there were additional sanctions on two turkish officials earlier this month and now they are telegraphing that they could be preparing more if turkey doesn t release brunson, shep? shepard: rich edson at the state department on a fluid day. rich, thanks. backlash is building after president trump stripped the former cia director john brennan of his security clearance. and the president says his reason for that was the r