Trump adds Iran, Pakistan to full foreign policy inbox
 

WASHINGTON: The US President, Donald Trump, has embarked on a New Year foreign policy offensive on his return to the White House, piling pressure on Iran, Pakistan and North Korea as he switches his focus beyond tax reform and other domestic priorities.
On Tuesday, the US president said the people of Iran ?are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime?, in the seventh tweet in five days in which he has appeared to seek to bolster the most extensive anti-government protests the country has seen since 2009, Financial Times reported.
Trump tweeted on Monday, saying Iranians were hungry for food and freedom. Senior US officials had previously been wary of feeding into Tehran?s claims that America backs regime change, for fear of undermining any popular groundswell. Iran?s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday blamed unspecified ?enemies? for stoking the protests.
Nikki Haley, Trump?s Ambassador to the UN, said the US would call for the UN Security Council and Human Rights Council to hold emergency meetings on Iran. Trump already faced a crowded foreignpolicy inbox for 2018, including the challenge of responding to an increasingly resurgent China and Russia, and imminent threats from North Korea and militant groups.This week he added to the list by threatening to cut aid to Pakistan, America?s longtime ally, which he accused of backing terrorist groups and holding the US in contempt. ?[T]hey have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools,? he tweeted about Pakistan on Monday.

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