US President Donald Trump denounced the Iran nuclear deal as an
“embarrassment” on Tuesday, in the latest sign that he plans to tear up
or renegotiate the landmark accord.
“Frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the United States, and I don’t think you’ve heard the last of it,” Trump told the UN General Assembly.
“Believe me. It is time for the entire world to join us in
demanding that Iran’s government end its pursuit of death and
destruction.”
Meanwhile, Venezuela on Tuesday accused Donald Trump of racism and
seeking a new Cold War after the US president told the United Nations he
was ready to act to “restore their democracy.”
“This racist and supremacist theory which he’s exposing, this
return to the Cold War, for a moment we didn’t know if we were listening
to president Reagan in 1982 or President Trump in 2017,” Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said.
“We do not accept threats from President Trump or whoever in
the world. We are people of peace — peaceful people — and we want
relations of mutual respect,” Arreaza told reporters at the United Nations.
He called Trump’s first speech at the United Nations “sad for the world,” saying he “talked as a general of the army, to invade other countries.”