Ronald Reagan: “The measures I am initiating are a direct result of the Iranian Government's own actions, including its unprovoked…”

The objective of the United States remains, as always, a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.

I expressed to President Gorbachev my confidence that the work we began together at Geneva in 1985 will continue under the Bush administration.

Well, you'd have to take up with the U.N.

I am delighted that later today I'll have the opportunity to welcome President Gorbachev to the United States and extend to him the hospitality and good wishes of the American people.