Dr. Amirahmadi Speaks with Voice to America
/Dr. Amirahmadi recently spoke with Voice to America about President Trump's speech to the UN. The audio and a summary are below.
What was the response by Iran to Trump’s speech?
There were reactions right after his speech by President Rouhani, who spoke at the same podium at the UN, and then a few days later by the leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khamenei. Both of them obviously rejected Mr. Trump’s claim and said that those words were humiliating, insulting and “ignorant.” They were particularly reacting to President Trump’s statement regarding not just the nuclear issue, but Iran’s human rights situation, whereby President Trump basically said to the Iranian people that their government is a bad government that abuses human rights, misuses resources and spends their money in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere; saying that with this government they will not have a good economy or even a future… In a way the talk was really a regime change talk. Although he never used the words regime change, but it was obvious he was trying to entice the people against the regime.
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