President Trump on Iran at UN General Assembly: Reach a Deal or Face 'Total Destruction'
U.S. President Trump delivered a speech at the United Nations General Assembly, sternly condemning Iran as the number one sponsor of terrorism and stating that Iran would never be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. He faces two choices: either reach an agreement with Iran to allow it to rebuild, or completely destroy it, and he called on all nations to join in total economic sanctions against Iran.
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Working with many nations in this room, we are solving decades of intractable challenges and we are settling years of unfinished business and we're doing it well. There is no better example of a danger that was allowed to gather strength at the world's peril than the number one sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran.
for 51 years the fanatical Iranian regime has ruled by bloodshed and mass murder spreading death and carnage and chaos across the entire Middle East and beyond. They were the bully of the Middle East but they are the bully no more. From the first day I entered the political arena I've been unwavering. I will never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
But I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world, or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival? There is no hope for a renewal of future circumstances, but I acknowledge the outcome that will be established. Because... we do not want them to become what they no longer are. Thank you. Love your families, all love to say. The problem is lower than the supplementary provisions, but that is truly a one-time thing. We have many supplementary provisions so that everyone we can reach will think we are continuing. And we are also building them on that kind of exhaustion.
We are adding to our stockpiles faster than we have ever been able to do before. I call on all nations to join us in enforcing the complete economic isolation of Iran until they stop their attacks on commercial shipping, relinquish their nuclear ambitions, and cease their support of terror.