(31 May 2019) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Europe on Friday to seek support and a potential diplomatic climb-down to ease rising tensions between the US and Iran.
Pompeo landed in Berlin for a brief visit, to to make up for a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel that he abruptly called off earlier this month to fly to Iraq.
Later, he will make an unusual and extended stop in Switzerland, the country that has long represented Washington's interests in Tehran and has in the past been an intermediary between the two.
His three days in Bern will be the first visit to the Swiss capital by a US secretary of state in more than two decades and comes amid public signals from President Donald Trump that he wants to talk with Iran.
Pompeo will also travel to the Netherlands and Britain to assure leaders there that the US is not looking for conflict, press them to do what they can to cool the situation, and perhaps open a channel of communication with Tehran.
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