Jan 23, 2025 · WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has revoked government security protection for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his top aide, Brian Hook, who have faced threats from Iran since they took hard-line stances on the Islamic Republic during Trump’s first administration.. A congressional staffer and a person familiar with the matter, speaking on the condition of anonymity to ...

6 days ago · The State Department's director of policy planning and head of the Iran Action Group, Brian Hook (L), shakes hands with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after the announcment of the "Iran Action ...

Jan 23, 2025 · The security details for both Pompeo and Hook, which were provided by the State Department, were pulled Tuesday, a day after Trump was formally inaugurated, The New York Times reported, citing one ...

6 days ago · Donald Trump announced Brian Hook was "fired" from his board position at the Wilson Center for Scholars. Hook had served as a special representative to Iran during Trump's first term.

6 days ago · Brian Hook. Hook served as a special representative to Iran and senior policy adviser to Pompeo 2018-2020. Now, he no longer has a security detail as of Wednesday evening. Trump has driven Hook out of his administration, firing him from his presidentially-appointed position on the board of the Wilson Center, a think tank, the AP reports.

Trump's former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former U.S. representative for Iran Brian Hook, and former national security adviser John Bolton each played roles in a 2020 drone strike that killed ...

Jan 21, 2025 · President Trump announced the firing of four high-profile presidential appointees just after midnight Tuesday, including a top envoy to Iran during his first term, Brian Hook, and retired Gen. Mark…

4 days ago · From left, U.S. special envoy for Iran Brian Hook, accompanied by from left, Avraham Berkowitz, Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, and President Donald Trump, speaks in the Oval Office at the White House, Aug. 12, 2020, in Washington.

Hook was a member of Trump's “Peace to Prosperity” plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hook accompanied the US Middle East envoy to focus on the economic and political components of the plan.

23 hours ago · Republicans therefore are playing up the cases of the two aides they insist were always loyal to Trump — former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo and Brian Hook, who was the State ...