{"id":2852,"date":"2026-09-23T04:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2026-09-23T04:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:37:11","slug":"trump-threatens-to-annihilate-iran-and-its-people-in-un-address-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2852","title":{"rendered":"Trump Threatens to \u201cAnnihilate\u201d Iran and Its People in UN Address \u2013 Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"hero is-image \">\n\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-caption\">President Donald Trump addresses the opening of the United Nations General Assembly at its headquarters in New York City on September 22, 2026.<\/span><span class=\"media-credit\">Kyle Mazza\/CNP\/Zuma<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mj-text-cta\">Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_No_Oligarchs\" data-ga-category=\"TopOfArticle\" data-ga-label=\"NewsletterPromoCovid\" data-ga-action=\"click|https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_Support\">Sign up for the free <em>Mother Jones Daily<\/em>.<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"section-lead\">President Trump\u2019s rambling,<\/span> combative speech Tuesday to the United Nations General Assembly saw him return to his most serious quagmire yet\u2014the war in Iran\u2014telling world leaders that he was considering completely destroying the country as a means to end the conflict he launched alongside Israel in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDo I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?\u201d Trump pondered aloud, claiming that<strong> <\/strong>Iran\u2019s leadership had rejected multiple peace deals with the US. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said little about the terms of those offers\u2014and nothing about the US and Israel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2026\/07\/hes-mister-iran-how-netanyahu-made-a-better-iran-deal-impossible\/\">explosive role in the Middle East<\/a>, from Iran and the Gulf to Gaza and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ASJu1vEkfwA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Three Most Alarming Things Trump Said During His UN Speech\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ASJu1vEkfwA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Center for International Policy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/internationalpolicy.org\/about\/#matt-duss\">Matt Duss<\/a>, a former Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) foreign policy adviser, said in a statement that Trump\u2019s threats were \u201cdangerously unhinged\u201d and \u201cmust be unequivocally rejected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSuch rhetoric is not merely reckless, it is a criminal threat of genocide against an entire nation,\u201d Duss wrote. \u201cU.S. lawmakers and U.S. partners around the world should condemn Trump\u2019s remarks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president again framed his demand as centering on Iran\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/06\/iran-nuclear-power-program-national-identity-bomb-uranium-enrichment-natanz-fordo\/\">nuclear program<\/a>, despite offering up a shifting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/deal-no-deal-trumps-iran-contradictions\/\">litany of goals and terms<\/a> on which he\u2019d end the war across the last seven months,<strong> <\/strong>and implied that scorched earth was the only alternative. But American operations in Iran have brought an uncompromising government to power, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/13\/world\/middleeast\/iran-hard-liners-sabotaged-peace-deal.html\">limited the Iranian president\u2019s power<\/a> to enforce any deal, and made nuclear containment on the level of the Obama administration\u2019s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action virtually impossible for the indefinite future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryspend.org\/iran-war-casualties\">the tens of thousands of people<\/a> who have been killed since the first US-Israeli strikes in February, and the communities whose essentials like food, water, and energy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2026\/07\/wars-escalation-in-iran-is-an-attack-on-civilians-basic-needs\/\">continue to be destroyed<\/a>, who have faced the worst consequences\u2014and who didn\u2019t earn a mention in Trump\u2019s speech beyond the threat of complete destruction.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2026\/09\/trump-un-annihilate-iran-war-general-assembly-speech\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump addresses the opening of the United Nations General Assembly at its headquarters in New York City on September 22, 2026.Kyle Mazza\/CNP\/Zuma Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. 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