As Iran War Grinds on, Trump to Face Skeptical World Leaders at UN
Trump faces skeptical allies as Iran keeps defying pressure and Houthi gains threaten key shipping routes and global energy prices, officials said.
- Returning to the United Nations in New York on Tuesday, President Donald Trump faces a deeply skeptical audience amid six months of war with Iran and growing regional instability that defies his claims of victory.
- The conflict has hardened into a stalemate, failing to meet Trump's objectives while depleting Pentagon missile stockpiles and leaving Iran's nuclear program partially intact despite US airstrikes three months earlier.
- Houthi fighters recently seized islands near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, tightening their grip on a Red Sea shipping corridor and dealing a significant blow to Saudi Arabia and regional security.
- Expert Jonathan Panikoff, a former deputy national intelligence officer on the Middle East, warns that inaction could intensify tensions among Gulf allies while high gasoline prices and low approval ratings threaten Trump's midterm prospects.
- Next week, Trump plans to meet Gulf leaders on the United Nations sidelines, though analysts warn the unpopular conflict will likely drag on past November, complicating his exit strategy.
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Can Trump convince skeptical allies that the Iran war is under control?
When U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations on Tuesday, he will return to a forum where he previously presented the U.S. campaign against Iran as both a military success and a diplomatic achievement. A year ago, Trump told world leaders that U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities had “totally obliterated everything” and claimed […]
As Iran war grinds on, Trump to face skeptical world leaders at UN
When President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations a year ago, he touted the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites just months earlier as "totally obliterating everything" and said he had brought peace between Israel and Iran.
The Iran war has entered its seventh month, and US President Donald Trump faces an increasingly skeptical international audience at the UN General Assembly. While Washington continues to insist that US and Israeli strikes have weakened Iran's nuclear capabilities, Tehran has not given up the fight, and the conflict is also having an increasingly serious impact on the region's energy supply.
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Washington: When President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations a year ago, he paid tribute to the American bombing of Iranian nuclear sites that had occurred only a few months earlier, saying that he had completely destroyed everything and achieved peace between Israel and Iran.
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