RIYADH: US President Donald Trump has called for isolation of Iran on terror charges in his speech at the Arab Muslims US Summit at Riyadh today.
US President Donald Trump has blamed Iran for supporting and aiding ‘unspeakable crimes’ in Syria under its leader Bashar al-Assad during his speech here in Saudi Arabia on combating violent extremism, but the American leader did not mention Syria’s alliance with Russia to carry out air strikes.
“Until the Iranian regime is willing to be a partner for peace, all nations of conscience must work together to isolate Iran, deny it funding for terrorism, cannot do it, and pray for the day when the Iranian people have the just and righteous government they so richly deserve,” he said in his address to the Arab Islamic American Summit here.
About forging peace, Trump argued that Iran had provided Syria with safe harbour, financial backing and the social standing needed for recruitment [of terrorists].
” From Lebanon to Iraq and Yemen, Iran funds, arms and trains terrorists, militias and other extremist groups that spread destruction and chaos across the region, he said.
For decades, “Iran has fuelled the fires of sectarian conflict and terror; it’s a government that speaks openly of mass murder, vowing the destruction of Israel, death to America, and ruin for many leaders and nations in this very room,” he said.
“Among Iran’s most tragic and destabilising interventions, you’ve seen it in Syria,” he said.