President Donald Trump plans to address Iran, cartels in the western hemisphere and the regime in Cuba in a wide-ranging US speech before world leaders at the UN General Assembly that will center on America’s power in the world, according to excerpts of his speech obtained by CNN.
The president will paint himself himself as someone who has acted to confront conflicts around the world and a leader who has brought global peace, despite his war in Iran causing significant instability in the region and a global energy shortage.
“While others have talked, I have acted. While others have spoken of peace, I have made it. While others have ignored threats, I have confronted them,” his written remarks say. “ I have used it to make America the most powerful country in the world.”
Trump will specifically address the US war with Iran and condemn the country’s former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for his actions before the US first launched strikes in Tehran in February.
“In two weeks, we will mark the third anniversary of the October 7th attack in Israel,” Trump is expected to say. “Iran’s Supreme Leader celebrated that massacre and called it a ‘service to humanity.’ The same regime slaughtered over 72,000 of its own citizens this year.”
“Just imagine if such a vile regime were ever empowered to carry out large-scale terror attacks from behind a nuclear shield,” Trump will say, using that as justification for launching the war with Iran. “This was the reality we had to confront — a reality that far too many preferred to ignore,”
The president will also thank the UN Security Council for voting to pass a resolution condemning Iran’s attacks on commercial shipping.
Additionally, Trump will focus some of his remarks on cartels, calling them “the ISIS of the Western Hemisphere.” And he plans to criticize the Cuban regime, claiming they are working in coordination with “left-wing radicals and Communist networks here in the United States.” He specifically claims they have “cultivated ties” to the Communist Party USA, Antifa, and the Democratic Socialists of America.