{"id":331362,"date":"2026-09-23T07:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331362"},"modified":"2026-09-25T06:53:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:53:56","slug":"trump-warns-in-un-speech-he-could-annihilate-iran-without-peace-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331362","title":{"rendered":"Trump warns in UN speech he could &#8216;annihilate&#8217; Iran without peace deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk \u2013 Sept 22, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump threatens to escalate war if no deal forged<\/li>\n<li>He predicts peace deal after US November midterm elections<\/li>\n<li>Trump to meet multiple world leaders at UN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) &#8211; US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> used his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/united-nations\/\">UN General Assembly<\/a> speech on Tuesday to make the case for his war on Iran, arguing he has prevented Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon \u200band warning that he could &#8220;annihilate the Islamic Republic&#8221; if no deal is reached to end the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>While predicting his administration would strike a peace deal with Iran \u200cfollowing the November 3 US midterm elections, Trump called on other nations to join America in isolating Iran economically to force it to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before?&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries \u200bagain?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since returning to office last year for a second term, Trump has sent waves through the global order, joining Israel to attack Iran, ordering a raid on Venezuela that captured \u200bthe country&#8217;s leader, and threatening to seize Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>In a 37-minute speech, Trump laid out his foreign policy vision, contending that the war with Iran \u2060would spare the world the threat of a nuclear-armed menace while maintaining that US military dominance in the Western Hemisphere was essential to preventing crises from taking root.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our actions in Venezuela are proof \u200bthat the United States will no longer permit threats to America to gain a foothold anywhere in the Western Hemisphere,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;While others have spoken of peace, I have made peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Outside the UN headquarters, \u200bdozens of anti-Iranian-government demonstrators gathered, a few of them holding up signs calling for democracy and decrying dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>Trump brushed aside suggestions that the midterm elections, in which his Republican Party risks losing control of Congress, could constrain his handling of the war. Some analysts have argued that a Democratic takeover of the legislature would weaken his leverage in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What they don&#8217;t realize is that I&#8217;m not running,&#8221; Trump said, referring to the leadership in Tehran. \u201cI \u200bdid that already, and won in a landslide. We won in a giant landslide, and I&#8217;ll be here for 2-1\/2 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Diplomatic Whirlwind<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Taking aim at US neighbors, Trump labeled Mexico &#8220;the epicenter of cartel violence,&#8221; \u200burged its government to &#8220;reclaim control of its soil,&#8221; and said his administration was pursuing &#8220;a fundamental change in the situation in Cuba.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Cuban delegation walked out of the hall as Trump referenced his pressure campaign against \u200cthe country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s \u2060an absolutely failed state, it&#8217;s failing like never before, and it will fall,&#8221; said Trump, adding that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was overseeing negotiations with the US neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not allow a haven for foreign adversaries to threaten America on our own doorstep, right at our doorstep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yet Trump&#8217;s appearance was less dramatic than in 2025, when he used a combative speech to chastise world leaders, warning that some countries were &#8220;going to hell,&#8221; and complained about UN facilities after being briefly stranded on a malfunctioning escalator and suffering an initial teleprompter failure.<\/p>\n<p>Trump renewed his criticism of the UN, highlighting his efforts \u200bto cut its bureaucracy, but offered no fresh \u200battacks or indications that the US would leave \u2060any additional UN agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Trump spoke less than a week after a UN fact-finding mission said it had reasonable grounds to believe US forces committed war crimes in two strikes on Iran, including one that hit a primary school in the southern city of Minab.<\/p>\n<p>He renewed his criticism of international bodies \u200bthat could serve as a check on US power, singling out the International Criminal Court and declaring that US military personnel would not be \u200bsubject to its authority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We \u2060will never allow US service members or anyone else to be investigated or given show trials by an anti-American tribunal with no jurisdiction over us,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on AI and international security on Wednesday, Trump acknowledged the challenges of the new technology but said &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The speech kicked off a day of \u2060high-level diplomacy at \u200bthe United Nations, where Trump was due to meet more than a dozen world leaders as wars in the Middle \u200bEast and Ukraine continued to test his foreign policy agenda.<\/p>\n<p>After his speech, Trump was scheduled to meet with no fewer than 11 world leaders, including British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Venezuela&#8217;s interim leader Delcy Rodriguez, and the \u200brepresentatives of the Gulf states of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/trump-set-whirlwind-un-meetings-with-wars-iran-ukraine-agenda-2026-09-22\/\">Sounds\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we had an honest unbiased press they would say that President Trump sounded dangerously delusional in his UN speech; boasting that he could \u2018annihilate\u2019 Iran. 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