Trump is to deliver a speech at 12:45 p.m. EDT to announce a confrontational new approach to US policy toward Iran. Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful and denies it is developing nuclear weapons. As the administration announced its plan for Iran, Republican Senators Bob Corker and Tom Cotton said they had developed legislation intended to address what they see as deficiencies in the Iran nuclear deal. The White House statement said Trump would work to deny funding for the Iranian government, particular its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). “Most importantly, we will deny the Iranian regime all paths to a nuclear weapon,” it said.

Source: bd News24 October 13, 2017 09:00 UTC