On Mideast visit, US house speaker vows to confront Iran 1/25/2018 9:07:41 PM U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan in United Arab Emirates ABU DHABI, Fox News, Jan. 25, 2018  –  U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan came to the United Arab Emirates on Thursday promising to take a harder line on Iran's ballistic missile program and its regional proxies, and saying he was open to imposing new economic sanctions. His Emirati hosts couldn't have been happier. 'We could have given that exact same speech,' Emirati Ambassador to the U.S. Yousef al-Otaiba said. Gulf Arab nations, which view Iran as a regional menace and opposed the 2015 nuclear deal, have welcomed the hard line adopted by the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Congress. Ryan said the nuclear deal should remain in place, but that more economic sanctions should be imposed to counter the 'Iranian threat.' He pointed to Iran's ballistic missiles and its 'land bridge' to ...