Trump Threatens to Annihilate Iran at U.N. as Guterres Warns of 4 Global Fault Lines
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Updated · The New York Times · Sep 22
Trump Threatens to Annihilate Iran at U.N. as Guterres Warns of 4 Global Fault Lines
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Sep 22
Summary
At the U.N. General Assembly, Trump said he faced a choice on Iran: strike a deal with Tehran or “annihilate the Islamic republic” quickly.
The threat came as he defended the U.S.-Israel war launched in February, said Iran’s reign as the Middle East’s “bully” was over, and later urged wider economic isolation instead.
Trump used the speech to champion other hard-line moves, claiming a 15% cut to the U.N. budget, attacking the International Criminal Court, dismissing climate change as a hoax and rejecting global A.I. controls.
António Guterres, 77, opened the session with a starkly different message, warning that widening global “fault lines” over war, inequality, climate and artificial intelligence demanded renewed multilateral cooperation.