From Iran nuclear deal to Twitter, this is what Donald Trump said in his interviews

The US president-elect outlined his position on key global issues in two interviews

ISRAEL

Will appoint son-in-law Jared Kushner to broker Middle East peace deal “Jared is such a good lad, he will secure an Israel deal which no one else has managed to get… He has an innate ability to make deals, everyone likes him”

Called “terrible” US abstaining from a UN vote on Israeli settlements

Refused to comment if he would move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

AFGHANISTAN

The anti-terror campaign is “going badly”. The US had not succeeded 17 years after intervening militarily “If you look at the Taliban there… They’re just getting bigger and bigger every year. And you ask yourself ‘what’s going on there?’”

IMMIGRATION

People entering the US will face “extreme” security checks, including those from Europe

Will sign orders by January 23 to strengthen US borders, restrict travel of Europeans and “extreme vetting” of people from areas hit by Islamist terror

NATO

The trans-Atlantic military alliance is important but “has problems” “NATO is obsolete… because it was designed many, many years ago. Its members “aren’t paying what they should”.

Only five NATO members were paying their fair share for the partnership

NATO “didn’t deal with terrorism”

IRAN

“I’m not happy with the Iran deal, I think it’s one of the worst deals ever made, I think it’s one of the dumbest deals I’ve ever seen… where you give…$150 billion back to a country, where you give $1.7 billion in cash. Did you ever see $100 million in hundred-dollar bills?...$1.7 billion in cash. Plane loads.” Refused to divulge the specifics of his Iran policy

RUSSIA

Would be willing to remove sanctions on Russia in exchange for “some good deals”, including a new deal to cut Moscow’s nuclear arsenal. “I think nuclear weapons should be way down and reduced very substantially, that’s part of it.”

SYRIA

Russia’s intervention in Syria was “a very bad thing” that led to a “terrible ¬humanitarian situation”.

Obama failed to restrain Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in their campaign against Syrian rebels, leading to a humanitarian crisis. “Aleppo was nasty. I mean when you see them shooting old ladies walking out of town – they can’t even walk and they’re shooting ’em – it almost looks like they’re shooting ’em for sport… that’s… a terrible situation.”

Security zones paid for by “Gulf states” should have been set up in Syria. “That would have been considerably cheaper… than the trauma that Germany is now going through. I would have said: create security zones in Syria.”