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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Andrew Roth in New York

Trump calls on allies to enforce ‘complete economic isolation of Iran’ in UN speech

Donald Trump on stage behind an official UN lectern
Donald Trump’s address to the UN general assembly mostly rehashed his stump speech talking points. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

Donald Trump has called on nations to unite to isolate Tehran and bring down global energy prices, as he gave a bellicose defence of his administration’s foreign policy and decision to strike Iran.

“I call on all nations to help to enforce the complete economic isolation of Iran,” Trump said in a speech to the UN general assembly on Tuesday. “If we stand united, we will soon see a world free of the last 51-year menace of Iranian terror … and oil prices will come plummeting down even lower than they were at the start of the conflict.”

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