RIYADH: The US Secretary of State landed in Riyadh on Wednesday for talks with Saudi Arabia’s leaders focused on countering Iran. Mike Pompeo’s visit is his first to the Kingdom since the US killed Iran’s powerful military commander Qassem Soleimani. He will hold talks with King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as well as Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan, State Department officials said. "Well spend a lot of time talking about the security issues with the threat from the Islamic Republic of Iran in particular," Pompeo told reporters in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa before heading to Riyadh. Pompeo said the United States was "prepared to talk anytime" to Iran but emphasised that the Iranian regime has "got to fundamentally change their behavior". "The pressure campaign continues. Its not just an economic pressure campaign, its diplomatic pressures, isolation through diplomacy as well," he said. He also said they would discuss a broad range of things including the economic relationship between the two countries. US President Donald Trump in 2018 withdrew from a nuclear accord with Iran and imposed sweeping sanctions aimed at reducing Tehrans regional clout. Pompeos three-day visit to Saudi Arabia comes after an increase in regional tensions following the drone strike last month in Baghdad that killed Soleimani.  Iran responded with missile strikes on US forces in Iraq. Iran has also been blamed for a drone and missile strike on two Saudi Aramco facilities in September that temporarily shut down more than 5 percent of global oil supply. After Riyadh, Pompeo will fly to Oman to meet the new sultan, Haitham bin Tariq, on Friday. Pompeo will offer condolences over the death of his predecessor Sultan Qaboos, who was the Arab worlds longest-serving leader and served as a go-between for Iran and the United States. *With AP