REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, TEHRAN -- The U.S. President Donald Trump's recent anti-Iran speech was under the influence of lobbyists from Israel and Saudi Arabia, Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said on Sunday.
It was clear that the Zionist regime of Israel and some countries like Saudi Arabia "have played a major role in "writing" Trump's speech and guiding him," Larijani was quoted as saying by Press TV.
He said that the U.S. president's aggressive rhetoric was aimed to cause commotion and prevent international economic cooperation with Iran.
On Friday, the U.S. president refused to certify Iran's international nuclear deal and accused Tehran of sponsoring terrorism, saying that he would deny Iran's "all paths to a nuclear weapon."
Accordingly, Saudi Arabia and Israel welcomed the new strategy towards Iran announced by Trump.
Iran has insisted that its nuclear energy program is aimed at civilian purposes.
U.S. President Donald Trump emphasized his country's partnership with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council as a whole to counter Iran's "destabilizing activities" in the region, the White House said on Sunday.
In a phone call with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Saturday, Trump thanked Riyadh's support for his "visionary" new Iran strategy, the White House said in a statement.
Trump also "emphasized the importance of the Gulf Cooperation Council in countering Iran's destabilizing activities in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and elsewhere in the region," it added.
According to the statement, the Saudi king hailed Trump's Iran strategy, pledging to "support American leadership."
The two leaders also discussed ways in which the two countries can combat terrorist groups and counter extremism.
On Friday, Trump announced that he had decided not to certify Iran's compliance with a landmark deal reached in 2015 between Iran and six world powers.
The decertification would not pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal at the moment, but it would open a 60-day window in which U.S. Congress could reimpose nuclear-related sanctions on Iran, a step which would mean the violation of the deal on the U.S. side.
In response, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani downplayed Trump's aggressive remarks over Iran's commitments to 2015 international nuclear deal as well as Tehran's ballistic missile program.
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