Trump threatens annihilation, then reports ‘very good’ talks
The US president offered Iran a deal or destruction at the UN, then said American envoys spent three hours meeting Iranian officials. The details remain conveniently unavailable.
The public record contains a threat, a meeting and several adjectives.
US President Donald Trump threatened to “annihilate” Iran at the United Nations on Tuesday, then said American officials had held a three-hour meeting with Iranian representatives on the sidelines of the gathering. Diplomacy, in this version, arrives shortly after the apocalypse option is placed on the table.
Trump said the meeting was “very good” and “very productive”, according to reports. He identified the US envoys as Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Witkoff also called it “very good”, but neither side disclosed an agenda, proposals, commitments or a next meeting. Trump said the Iranian officials were “not the highest level, but it’s something”.
The Iranian delegation has not been publicly identified in the material reviewed, and no Iranian account of the meeting was available. The UN confirms that the General Assembly’s high-level week began on September 22; an official presidential-record listing also records Trump’s address, although the full transcript was not retrieved. For now, the public record contains a threat, a meeting and several adjectives. The substance is still somewhere between them.