Iran, Venezuela Fire Back After Trump’s Strong Criticism at UN

President Trump’s debut U.N. General Assembly speech Tuesday drew strong reactions from two of the three regimes he criticized most sharply, although the response from Kim Jong-un – whom Trump derisively labeled “rocket man” and said he was on a “suicide mission” – is yet to be seen.Trump flailed the “depraved” regime in Pyongyang for human rights abuses and a “reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles,” and warned that if forced to defend itself or its allies the U.S. could “totally destroy North Korea.” Texas: New Federal Program Pays Off Your MortgageThe New Federal Stimulus Package To Pay Off Your Mortgage – Expires in 2017. Learn More.See more →Promoted by Comparisons.orgAd FeedbackThe Iranian regime was “murderous,” “reckless” and “oppressive,” he said, accusing it of destabilizing behavior across the region and violating human rights at home. Trump pointedly distanced the “good people of Iran” from the harsh criticism, saying they want change and referring to their “nation’s proud roots as a center of civilization, culture and wealth.”And on Venezuela, Trump said the Maduro regime has “destroyed a prosperous nation by imposing a failed ideology,” adding that wherever socialism or communism has been adopted, from the Soviet Union to Cuba to Venezuela, “it has delivered anguish and devastation and failure.”Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro did not make the journey to U.N. headquarters for the annual General Assembly high-level opening session and Kim Jong-un is not known to have left North Korea since taking power in 2012, but Iranian President Hasan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif both traveled to New York for this week’s meetings.

 

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