A delegate from Venezuela read a book during Pres. Trump's highly critical remarks about her country at the UNGA.
With the Middle East on high alert after an attack on Saudi oil facilities, world leaders were jockeying at the United Nations on Monday to respond to the attack and find a resolution to heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
After expressing an openness to meeting Rouhani last month, Trump seemed to admit it's no longer likely. The attack on Saudi Arabia's oil processing facilities, one of the largest in the world, seems to have changed the calculus for the European countries who remain signatories to the nuclear deal -- Germany, France and the United Kingdom -- and have tried to lower tensions between the U.S. and Iran. In a joint statement Monday, they said they had concluded,"Iran bears responsibility for this attack. There is no other plausible explanation.
But how to get to those talks is the source of division. The Europeans have proposed an interim agreement where Iran returns to compliance with the nuclear deal in exchange for the U.S. permitting some economic aid to Iran, for example through a $15 billion line of credit. If the two sides agreed to that, a diplomatic source told ABC News, the hope is that they could begin negotiations on a new deal that extends the nuclear deal's limits on Iran and addresses its ballistic missile program.
His senior advisers, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, have also shot down the idea and made clear that they will do nothing to halt their"maximum pressure" campaign against Iran.
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