US President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted Iran and its "corrupt dictatorship", alleging that its leaders are sowing "chaos, death and destruction as he urged the international community to isolate the Iranian regime as long as its "aggression" continues.
"Every solution to the humanitarian crisis in Syria must also include a strategy to address the brutal regime that has fuelled and financed it - the corrupt dictatorship in Iran, Trump said in his second address to the UN General Assembly's annual General Debate that opened here Tuesday.
He accused Iran's leaders of sowing chaos, death and destruction and said they do not respect their neighbours or borders, or the sovereign rights of nations.
Instead Iran's leaders plunder the nation's resources to enrich themselves and to spread mayhem across the Middle East and far beyond," he said.
Trump said the US has launched a campaign of economic pressure to deny the Iranian regime the funds it needs to advance its bloody agenda and Washington is working with countries that import Iranian crude oil to cut their purchases substantially.
Additional sanctions will resume on November 5 and more will follow, he said, adding that the US cannot allow the "world's leading sponsor of terrorism" to posses the planet's most dangerous weapons.
We cannot allow a regime that chants 'Death to America' and that threatens Israel with annihilation to possess the means to deliver a nuclear warhead to any city on earth. Just can't do it, he said. "We ask all nations to isolate Iran's regime as long as its aggression continues."