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riversedge

(70,090 posts)
Thu Sep 21, 2017, 06:46 AM Sep 2017

Iran pushes back on Trump's UN attack

Source: Tribune News Service



11 hrs ago



UNITED NATIONS - Iran fired back sharply at President Donald Trump at the United Nations on Wednesday, dismissing what it called "ignorant, hateful and absurd rhetoric" and challenging his threats to tear up the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.

A day after Trump denounced Tehran as a "rogue state" to the U.N. General Assembly, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stood before the same gathering of global leaders and diplomats, and aimed the insult back at him.


"It would be a great pity if this agreement were to be destroyed by rogue newcomers to the world of politics," Rouhani said of the nuclear accord.

The disarmament deal "belongs to the international community in its entirety, and not only to one or two" governments, he said.
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Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-pushes-back-on-trumps-un-attack/ar-AAsgLxk



I think many of us know that Trump is stirring up trouble with Iran just because Obama's name is on the nuclear deal. damn!


.............. As a candidate he had vowed to abandon the deal, but Secretary of State Rex Tillerson conceded this weekend that Iran is in "technical compliance."..............
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Iran pushes back on Trump's UN attack (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2017 OP
"Ignorant, hateful, absurd" Tanuki Sep 2017 #1
republican Comrade Casino* just has to get into a pisssing match... Achilleaze Sep 2017 #2

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
2. republican Comrade Casino* just has to get into a pisssing match...
Thu Sep 21, 2017, 07:37 AM
Sep 2017

...at least once a day.

* republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief and "family-values" role model.

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