Trump defends military action against Iran, Venezuela, and calls for rebrand of AI

US President Donald Trump used his address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday to defend recent military action against Iran, urging countries to maintain economic pressure on Tehran – and declaring that he now faces a choice between making a deal, or taking far more drastic steps.Calling Iran “the number one sponsor of terror,” the President devoted much of his speech to the Islamic Republic, arguing that his Administration had confronted a threat that previous leaders – in the US and abroad – had failed to address.He told world leaders gathered in the Assembly Hall for the annual General Debate that for 51 years, “the fanatical Iranian regime” had spread “carnage and chaos” across the entire Middle East and beyond.Nuclear weapons ban “I will never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” he said.Mr. Trump said his administration had offered Iran economic cooperation in exchange for ending its nuclear programme and support for terrorism, but that Tehran had rejected the proposal.“Then in Operation Midnight Hammer, the US military obliterated their nuclear programme beneath mountains of rubble,” he said.The President went on to claim that subsequent military operations had severely ...