Trumps threats to Iran dismissed by Rouhani
Trumps threats to Iran dismissed by Rouhani: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says regional stability cannot be achieved without Tehran’s help.
President Trump had begun a trip to Israel on Monday 22nd of May, 2017 by saying that it shared a “common cause” with its Arab neighbours, in what the President called “the threat posed by Iran”.
President Trump demanded of Iran to cease its support of “terrorists and militias”. Mr Rouhani dismissed the criticism and added that it was actually Iran and its allies that were fighting terrorists. The civil wars in Syria and Yemen are being fought by Iran and US backed militant groups. However both groups are fighting Islamic State in Iraq.
After meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, President Trump said that the US and Israel faced “common threats – from [IS] and other terrorist groups, to countries like Iran that sponsor terrorism and fund and foment terrible violence, the United States and Israel can declare with one voice that Iran must never be allowed to possess a nuclear weapon, and must cease its deadly funding, training and equipping of terrorists and militias“.
President Trump’s comments come after a day he had urged Arab and Muslim leaders during a speech at a summit in Saudi Arabia to “work together to isolate Iran” unless it is “willing to be a partner for peace.”
During his first news conference after winning a second term in Friday’s presidential election in Iran President Rouhani commented on the summit as “just a show.”
President Rouhani said that “Who can say regional stability can be restored without Iran? Who can say the region will experience total stability without Iran?” The President of Iran further added that the US had “resorted to many methods against Iran but failed in all.” Mr Rouhani was referring to the American Iran nuclear deal which was signed in 2015.
President Rouhani added that “We are waiting for the new US administration to find stability and continuity in its policies. The problem is that the Americans do not know our region and those who advise US officials are misleading them.”
“It was Syrians, Iraqis, Iranians and members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement who had been fighting terrorists in the Middle East in recent years, and accused the US and its allies of funding terrorists” President Rouhani stressed.
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