President Trump on Wednesday accused China of trying to interfere in the November midterm elections “against my administration” and called out Russia and Iran for allowing Syria to carry out its “butchery.”

“Regrettably, we found that China has been trying to interfere in 2018 election against my administration,” the president said as he chaired a meeting of the United Nations Security Council. “They do not want me or us to win because I am the first president to challenge China on trade.”

“We don’t want them to meddle or interfere in our election,” Trump added as China’s foreign minister Wang Yi sat just a few feet away.

Later during his remarks, Wang addressed Trump’s comments as he wrapped up his presentation.

“China has all along followed the policy of noninterference in other countries affairs,” Wang said. “We did not and will not interfere in any other countries affairs. We refuse to accept any unwarranted accusations against China.”

Later, Trump tweeted out photos of a four-page advertising section that ran in the Des Moines Register – Iowa’s largest newspaper – on Sunday that was paid for by China Daily, the Chinese government’s official publication.

The articles referred to the trade war as “the fruit of the president’s folly” and how importers in China are turning to South American markets for soybeans.

“But China is going and attacking the farm belt, our farmers. They’re attacking our industrial -with ads, and with statements that don’t look like ads. It looks like they’re editorials and they’re not. They’re made up by China, because they don’t want me to get elected because this has never happened to them,” he said during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

The newspaper insert appeared a day before the US imposed a 10 percent tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods that will increase to 25 percent by the end of the year.

The US already had slapped tariffs on $50 billion Chinese products.

In retaliation, China levied tariffs of $110 billion of US goods, including soybeans and other agricultural products.

Trump’s meddling comments echo a claim he made in a tweet last week that Beijing is “actively trying to impact and change our election by attacking our farmers, ranchers and industrial workers because of their loyalty to me.”

Last month, National Security Adviser John Bolton said there’s a “sufficient national security concern” that China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are meddling in the election but declined to elaborate.

Trump, continuing his attack on Iran that he began the day before when he said the regime spreads “chaos, death and destruction” across the Middle East during his address to the UN General Assembly, said the Islamic Regime is a sponsor of terrorism and “fuels conflict” in the “region and beyond.”

“The Syrian regime’s butchery is enabled by Russia and Iran,” he said.

The president called on the members of the Security Council to ensure Iran changes its behavior and is never allowed to get a nuclear bomb.

“A regime with this track record should never be allowed to have” nukes, he said.

Trump, who withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran that former President Obama brokered with a number of European counties, said before the US pulled out, Iran was in “big, big trouble.”

“They needed cash; we gave it to them,” Trump said, referring to the lifting of sanctions as part of the pact.

The president also said his administration would impose new sanctions on Iran in November, saying that would be “tougher than ever before.”

Then, after blasting Russia for being an ally to Syria’s leader Bashar al-Assad and Iran for exerting its influence in the country, he thanked Moscow and Tehran for their “restraint” in Idlib province – a rebel stronghold in Syria -to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.

“I want to thank Iran, Russia and Syria for, at my very strong urging and request, substantially slowing down their attack on Idlib province and the 3 million people who live there in order to get 35,000 targeted terrorists,” he said. “Get the terrorists, but I hope the restraint continues. The world is watching.”