In his address yesterday to the annual conference of the powerful American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC), Trump claimed that with President Barack Obama in his final year, discussions have been swirling about an attempt to bring a security council resolution on the terms of an eventual agreement between Israel and Palestine.
"Let me be clear: An agreement imposed by the UN would be a total and complete disaster. The United States must oppose this resolution and use the power of our veto. Why? Because that's not how you make a deal," Obama said amid loud applause from the audience.
"My number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran. I have been in business a long time. I know deal-making and let me tell you, this deal is catastrophic - for America, for Israel, and for the Middle East," he said.
"The problem here is fundamental. We have rewarded the world's leading state sponsor of terror with USD 150 billion and we received absolutely nothing in return," he said.
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But when those restrictions expire, Iran will have an industrial-size military nuclear capability ready to go, and with zero provision for delay no matter how bad Iran's behaviour is, he said.
"First, we will stand up to Iran's aggressive push to destabilise and dominate the region. Iran is a very big problem and will continue to be, but if I'm elected President, I know how to deal with trouble," he said.
The deal is silent on missile tests but those tests do violate UN Security Council Resolutions and no one has done anything about it, he said as he went on to slam the UN.
"The United Nations is not a friend of democracy. It's not a friend to freedom. It's not a friend even to the US where as all know, it has its home. And it surely isn't a friend to Israel," he said adding the UN cannot impose a solution.