In Saudi Arabia, Trump reaches out to Sunni nations, at Iran's expense

Trump has presented the shift as a reinvestment in alliances with nations to fight and terrorism

As voters in Iran danced in the streets, celebrating the landslide re-election of a moderate as president, President Trump stood in front of a gathering of leaders from across the Muslim world and called on them to isolate a nation he said had “fuelled the fires of sectarian conflict and terror.”

That nation was Iran.

In using the headline address of his first foreign trip as president to declare his commitment to Sunni Arab nations, Trump signalled a return to an American policy built on alliances with Arab autocrats, regardless of their human rights records or policies that sometimes undermine