Trump speech at UN reminiscent of World War rhetoric: Iranian MP

Trump's remarks at the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly was the manifestation of his anger, since the US does not have the power he thinks, Heshmatollah Falahat Pisheh, member of the National Security and Foreign Relations Committee at the Iranian Parliament said.

Trump in his UN speech last Tuesday lashed out at Iran and the historic nuclear deal it signed with the major world powers in 2015, saying 'The Iran deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into.'

The language used by the US President was in contradiction to today's world realities, Falahat Pisheh said.

'Trump proved that they are not only the developing countries that are prone to be governed by dictators like Qaddafi, rather in the so-called developed countries as well, there are numerous Qaddafis, and Trump is one of them,' the Iranian legislator added, drawing a parallel between Trump's rhetoric and the one former Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi used to adopt.

Falahat Pisheh also urged the European countries to distance themselves from Trump's approach.

Many European nations, truly, described Trump's UN speech as unwise and arrogant, he said.

Anjali Dayal, an international security professor at Fordham University said of Trump's speech that “it's hard to square the idea of sovereignty as non-interference with his language on North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela”, according to the Independent.

The US President in an attempt to make a good image of himself frequently resorted to the term 'sovereign nations'.

Gérard Araud, the French ambassador to the US, said Monday in a forum at the Atlantic Council in Washington rejected the idea of renegotiation with Iran on the nuclear issue. Trump has stressed that the accord should be revised.

'The agreement is working as it is,” Araud said.

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