Iran’s Rouhani says US headed into isolation after UN meeting

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the UN Security Council meeting chaired by US President Donald Trump yesterday shows America is increasingly isolated among the international community.

Rouhani spoke after returning to Tehran from New York, where he addressed the UN General Assembly.

He says Trump achieved the opposite of what he’d hoped for and that the Security Council meeting backed Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers. Trump pulled America out of the accord in May and is re-imposing sanctions on Iran.

Rouhani says “nobody backed the United States, putting America into a unique historical and political isolation.”

On Wednesday, Rouhani told reporters at the UN that the US withdrawal from the deal was “a mistake” and that he believes America will “sooner or later” support the deal.

— AP