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Trump Set to Address the UN General Assembly, with Iran in Focus

  • 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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CNN reports that Trump considered his options at Camp David for an attack on Yemen and the Houthi Ansar Allah. Iran has put its forces on high alert The post CNN: Trump decides whether to attack Yemen – Iran on high alert [video] appeared first on in.gr.

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Iran has stated this Saturday that security in the Middle East "cannot be dictated from outside the region" and accused Israel and the United States of using military force as a tool to "redesign the political and security landscape" of the area.

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Trump to face skeptical world leaders at UN

Returning to the United Nations on Tuesday, Trump will face a deeply skeptical audience increasingly rattled by six months of war between U.S. forces and an emboldened Iran, growing regional instability and a nuclear threat that has not disappeared despite…

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President tells NewsNation that he is waiting to ‘see what hashens' in Iran to determine how he would move forward

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