ICBPS– The U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Oman on Thursday in his Middle East normalization tour amid at building off Israel-UAE normalization agreement, and met Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al-Said.
Pompeo met Omani Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al-Said – during the last stop on a Mideast trip — to promote unity among [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council and build on the historic momentum to advance regional peace and prosperity, according to the State of Department declaration.
.@SecPompeo met with Omani Sultan Haitham bin Tarik Al Said and the two discussed the importance of advancing peace and stability in the region.
— Ned Price (@StateDeptSpox) August 27, 2020
“Met today with Omani Sultan Haitham bin Tarik Al Said on the importance of building regional peace, stability, and prosperity through a united Gulf Cooperation Council. Grateful for our strong security partnership and economic ties,” he said in a statement issued on his official Twitter account.
Met today with Omani Sultan Haitham bin Tarik Al Said on the importance of building regional peace, stability, and prosperity through a united Gulf Cooperation Council. Grateful for our strong security partnership and economic ties. pic.twitter.com/hCKL1FH9CX
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) August 27, 2020
Further, “During a joint call with U.S. President Donald Trump, the United Arab Emirates and Israel said they would work towards normalized relations in exchange for a halt in Israeli annexation of Palestinian land,” reported the National.
Mike Pompeo has, recently, visited Israel, Sudan, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on his tour that Washington aims at building on this month’s U.S.-brokered normalization deal between Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi.
“Meetings in Sudan and Bahrain do not yield breakthroughs,” claimed The Times of Israel.
Meetings carried out, building regional peace, and discussing the security issues presented by the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) in the region as tensions escalated dramatically in recent years following the regional malicious activities by Tehran.
In February, Pompeo also had met senior authorities of Oman and Saudi Arabia after spent three days in Africa, visiting leaders of Senegal, Angola, and Ethiopia.
Previously, in 2018, the late Sultan Qaboos met Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Muscat, the first visit by an Israeli leader to Oman — has close ties with Iran and Saudi Arabia — in more than 20 years.
IRI officials have shown no mercy to the American-brokered normalization and denounced the deal as New Spokesperson of Foreign Ministry Saeed Khatibzadeh said the normalization of UAE’s ties with Israel was ‘Big Mistake.’ “The UAE has made a big mistake and we hope it will correct its behavior,” he added.
The so-called moderate Hassan Rouhani also decried the deal as a ‘huge mistake.’
The IRI’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the peace-deal “unacceptable’, called it a ‘theatre.’
‘Mullah the Great’ Ali Khamenei also said “normalization between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv served to galvanize regional people against the occupying regime further, thus bringing its ultimate disintegration closer,” described it a “threat.”
