IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “Laughter during U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech to the U.N. General Assembly was a sign of the United States’ isolation, the head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said on Wednesday [9-26-18], Fars News reported. Some delegates at the General Assembly on Tuesday [9-25-18] laughed and muttered when Trump, in a speech, praised the ‘extraordinary’ achievements of his administration. ‘You saw and heard their laughter,’ IRGC Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said, according to Fars. ‘The message of this ridicule was the crumbling of your facade and the increased isolation of America, and this was a big political disgrace…The United States accuses Iran of supporting destabilizing proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iraq. Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani traded taunts at the assembly session, with Trump threatening more sanctions against Tehran and Rouhani suggesting the U.S. president suffered from a ‘weakness of intellect’.”
–Babak Dehghanpisheh, “Laughter at Trump speech a sign of U.S. isolation: Iran guards chief,” Reuters, September 26, 2018 4:06 am