In UN speech, Trump threatens to 'annihilate' Iran if no deal reached

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to “annihilate” Iran if diplomatic efforts to end his nearly seven-month-old war do not succeed. Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, he also touted both his peacemaking record and an increasingly belligerent U.S. foreign policy stretching from the Middle East to Venezuela to Greenland.Trump presented the past year as proof that military force and economic pressure could resolve conflicts that diplomacy had failed to settle. “As presiden

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