"I am pleased to announce that the US and Poland will jointly host the Ministerial to Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on Friday evening.
"The ministerial will address a range of critical issues including terrorism and extremism, missile development and proliferation, maritime trade and security, and threats posed by proxy groups across the region," the State Department detailed in a release.
Speaking to Fox News earlier, Pompeo said the meeting will bring together dozens of nations and a focus will be "making sure that Iran is not a destabilizing influence."
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described the planned summit a "desperate anti-Iran circus."
"Reminder to host/participants of anti-Iran conference: those who attended last US anti-Iran show are either dead, disgraced, or marginalized. And Iran is stronger than ever," he tweeted along with a photograph from the 1996 Summit of Peacemakers.
The 1996 event, hosted by Egypt in Sharm el-Sheikh brought together the leaders of 27 nations in a show of support for the Middle East grinding of the peace processor. Attendees included US President Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is...
, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, and Paleostinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat.
| But this time it is being organized by President Trump, so we can expect it won’t be business as usual. |
Zarif also shamed Poland for hosting the conference, noting that Iran had hosted Polish refugees during War War Two.
Pompeo is currently on a Middle East tour, drumming up support for US sanctions against Iran.
The summit will take place on February 13 and 14.