The U.S. Special Representative for Iran, Brian Hook, underscored that “we will sanction any imports of Iranian crude oil”. He went on posit that “Iran has just rejected diplomacy too many times. They have got to stop this sectarian agenda of creating a Shiite corridor of power to dominate the Middle East. This is a clerical regime that wants to remake the Middle East in its image – and that would deeply destabilise the Middle East to have regimes following the same Marxist theocratic regime”.