Trump calls on allies to enforce ‘complete economic isolation of Iran’ in UN speech

US president threatens to ‘annihilate’ Tehran and dismisses threat from AI as a ‘hoax’ in bellicose address The US president, Donald Trump, has called on world nations to unite to isolate Tehran and bring down global energy prices as he gave a bellicose defence of his administration’s foreign policy and decision to strike Iran. “I call on all nations to help to enforce the complete economic isolation of Iran,” Trump said during a headline speech to the UN general assembly on Tuesday. “If we stand united, we will soon see a world free of the last 51-year menace of Iranian terror … and oil prices will come plummeting down even lower than they were at the start of the conflict.” Continue reading...