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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Tait in Washington

Trump’s threat to annihilate Iran to UN general assembly is stunning, even for him

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Donald Trump at the 81st United Nations general assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on Tuesday. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

Donald Trump has a habit of discomfiting delegates to the United Nations general assembly. But this year, he may have upstaged the ghost of Nikita Khrushchev by openly contemplating the annihilation of a fellow UN member state.

Eleven minutes into a 40-minute address, the US president announced he had “a big decision to make” over Iran, which has staged a much more determined resistance than Trump anticipated when he decided to go to war against the country in February.

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