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Tillerson Warns Against Doing Business With Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned global companies that they do business with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards “at their own risk,” remarks that will add to investment uncertainty in a country eager to reap the economic benefits of a 2015 nuclear accord. Rex Tillerson Photographer: Alex Brandon/AFP via Getty Images Tillerson, visiting Saudi Arabia to help inaugurate an alliance against Iran between the kingdom and Iraq, called on governments to join a U.S. sanctions regime against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a hard-line military and political force. “Both of our countries believe that those who conduct business with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, any of their entities -- European companies or other companies around the globe – really do so at great risk,” Tillerson said at a briefing with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir. The Revolutionary Guards “foment instability in t...

Tillerson lands in Riyadh at start of Gulf, South Asia tour

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Tillerson lands in Riyadh at start of Gulf, South Asia tour 10/21/2017 6:22:52 PM U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gathers his things to board his plane to depart for a several day Mideast trip, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017 RIYADH (Reuters) OCT, 21, 2017  - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Riyadh on Saturday to attend a landmark meeting between officials from Saudi Arabia and Iraq aimed at improving relations between the two countries and countering Iran’s growing regional influence. The chief U.S. diplomat flew into King Salman Air Base a little more than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a strategy to contain Iran and compel Tehran to agree to close what he charged are flaws in the multinational 2015 deal designed to prevent Iran developing nuclear weapons. Tillerson’s only official meeting on Saturday was a working dinner with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir. He was stopping in Saudi Arabia on the first leg of a...