Mike Pompeo went by surprise to Brussels to discuss Iran with the European Union

The head of American diplomacyMike Pompeowill visit Brussels on Monday to meet with the responsible European officials "urgent issues", mainly on Iran, said Sunday evening a head of the state department.

Pompeo canceled the trip that he had planned on Monday in Moscow, but will meet on Tuesday the Russian president, Vladimir Poutine, and the Minister of Foreign AffairsSergei Lavrov in Sochi, on the shores of the Black Sea, added the official before the trip of the secretary of state.

The State Department did not specify which meetings are scheduled on Mike Pompeo's agenda, although a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union.

American diplomacy simply said that Pompeo will maintain with French, British and German officials, the three European countries that signed in 2015 the The Iranian nuclear deal.

Iran announced on May 8, one year after the withdrawal of the United States from the international agreement,He suspended some of his acquired commitments.

An ultimatum rejected by European countries.

The US administration of Donald Trump increases the pressure on Iran, accused of preparing "imminent" attacks against Washington's interests in the Middle East.

The Pentagon announced Friday the dispatch of a warship carrying vehicles, mainly amphibians, and a battery of Patriot missiles in the area, in addition to the deployment of an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers.

Pompeo has already canceled two trips to Berlin and Greenland in recent days to focus on the Iranian problem.

(With information from EFE)