Iranian government praises US for cutting foreign aid funding

Iranian ministers and conservative media outlets welcomed Mr Trump’s order (AP)

Iran’s government seems to be welcoming some recent decisions by the United States – even though they came from a President Iranian operatives have allegedly been plotting to assassinate.

Donald Trump’s moves to freeze spending on foreign aid and overhaul, and perhaps even end, the US Agency for International Development (USAid), have been lauded in Iranian state media.