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The National
10 hours ago
- Politics
- The National
'I may do it, I may not': Donald Trump ambiguous over US involvement in strikes on Iran
President Donald Trump on Wednesday sounded an ambiguous tone over whether the US would strike Iranian nuclear sites and said Tehran had made contact in a bid to negotiate. His comments come a day after he appeared to be preparing for war and demanded the 'unconditional surrender' of the Iranian government. 'You don't know. I may do it, I may not do it – I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do,' Mr Trump said at the White House during a ceremony installing a new flagpole. He said Iranian officials wanted to negotiate and had even proposed a meeting in the White House, but that it was 'very late to be talking'. He added: 'There's a big difference between now and a week ago, right? Big difference." Iran's mission to the UN denied having asked for a meeting with the White House. 'No Iranian official has ever asked to grovel at the gates of the White House,' the mission wrote on X. 'Iran does NOT negotiate under duress, shall NOT accept peace under duress, and certainly NOT with a has-been warmonger clinging to relevance.' The escalation comes on the sixth day of the Iran-Israel air war that threatens to destabilise the entire Middle East. Mr Trump, who campaigned on a promise to bring peace to the world, had been in the process of advancing talks with Tehran that were aimed at limiting Iran's nuclear programme. But a sixth round of discussions scheduled for Oman on Sunday were cancelled after Israel launched air strikes on Iran on Friday. On Tuesday, Mr Trump said America's patience was 'wearing thin' and held a meeting with his national security team to discuss options that included joining Israel in striking Iranian nuclear sites. 'Two very simple words: unconditional surrender,' Mr Trump repeated on Wednesday. 'That means I've had it. OK, I've had it, I give up. No more. Then we go blow up all the ... nuclear stuff that's all over the place there.' The possibility of US involvement in yet another potentially prolonged war in the Middle East comes as Mr Trump appears to have quieted the dissenting voices of his staunchly anti-war and isolationist Maga base. Asked whether he had spoken with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Trump said: 'He's doing a good job, he has been treated very unfairly. There's a wartime president and he's going through this nonsense, ridiculous.'
New York Times
2 days ago
- Politics
- New York Times
Corrections: June 17, 2025
An article on Saturday about the attacks in Israel and Iran on Friday misstated which Iranian official addressed the United Nations Security Council on Friday. It was Iran's U.N. ambassador, Amir Saeid Iravani, not Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi. An article on Saturday about the victims of the Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London's Gatwick Airport that crashed into the facilities of a nearby medical college misstated the surname of a family friend of one of the crash victims. He is Sanjay Jhajjar, not Chhibber. An article on Saturday about the Trump administration's shifting rationale for detaining Mahmoud Khalil after a federal judge ruled that the government could not continue to hold the Columbia University graduate under its initial justification misspelled the surname of a former homeland security official. He is Scott Shuchart, not Schuchart. An article on Monday about the wedding of Huma Abedin and Alex Soros's wedding in the Hamptons misstated Ms. Abedin's age. She is 48, not 49. An article on Friday about the six-episode Australian murder mini-series 'The Survivors' misidentified the character Mia in the series. Mia is Kieran's girlfriend and the mother of his child; she is not his wife. An obituary on June 11 about Frederick Forsyth, the author of 'The Day of the Jackal' and other thrillers, referred incorrectly to an incident in 1973 when Mr. Forsyth, working for British intelligence, traveled to Dresden, which was then in East Germany. Although he recalled that Vladimir V. Putin was the K.G.B. station chief there at the time, Mr. Putin did not join the K.G.B. until 1975 and was not stationed in Dresden until 1985. An obituary on Sunday about Harris Yulin, the award-winning actor and director, misstated part of the name of a play in which Mr. Yulin appeared in 1963. It is 'Next Time I'll Sing to You,' not 'Next Time I'll Sing for You.' Errors are corrected during the press run whenever possible, so some errors noted here may not have appeared in all editions. To contact the newsroom regarding correction requests, please email nytnews@ To share feedback, please visit Comments on opinion articles may be emailed to letters@ For newspaper delivery questions: 1-800-NYTIMES (1-800-698-4637) or email customercare@
