FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union touched on a number of international issues, including North Korea and the battle to defeat ISIS, but he didn’t offer any specifics and barely mentioned Russia or China… Here’s what he did include:
Iran
Trump has persistently criticized the multilateral Iranian nuclear deal put in place by his predecessor Obama and has labeled Iran a state sponsor of terror. He has also included its citizens in its controversial travel ban.
However, he and his vice president, Mike Pence, offered encouragement to ordinary Iranians who stood up to protest a faltering economy and government corruption late last year.
‘When the people of Iran rose up against the crimes of their corrupt dictatorship, I did not stay silent,’ Trump said Tuesday.
‘America stands with the people of Iran in their courageous struggle for freedom.’
He also reiterated his opposition to the nuclear deal.
‘I am asking the Congress to address the fundamental flaws in the terrible Iran nuclear deal.’ “
-Euan McKirdy, “What Trump said about ISIS, Iran and North Korea in his State of the Union speech,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Jan. 31, 2018 03:51am