Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, on the ground for Day 2 of UNGA. Here’s what’s on tap for the day: Trump’s speech, Guterres’s swan song, and Zelensky’s press conference.

U.S. President Donald Trump used his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to dial up the pressure on Iran, threatening to “annihilate” the country if it does not make a deal with the United States to end the war.

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, on the ground for Day 2 of UNGA. Here’s what’s on tap for the day: Trump’s speech, Guterres’s swan song, and Zelensky’s press conference.

U.S. President Donald Trump used his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to dial up the pressure on Iran, threatening to “annihilate” the country if it does not make a deal with the United States to end the war.

“I have a big decision to make: Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world?” Trump mused to the audience of world leaders and diplomats. “Or do 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?”

After presenting the stark choice, Trump said he believed that the two sides would arrive at a deal after the upcoming U.S. midterm election “because it doesn’t make sense for them not to.” It remains unclear whether any progress toward such a deal will be made this week—Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is leading a delegation to UNGA, but we don’t yet know if the two sides will meet.

Iran was also not the only country that Trump threatened: He called Cuba an “absolutely failed state” that “will fall,” adding that his administration would “not allow a haven for foreign adversaries to threaten America on our own doorstep.” Members of the Cuban delegation walked out of the chamber in response.

Greenland. It wasn’t all fire and fury, however. Trump took a moment to tout a new deal with Denmark and Greenland that will significantly increase U.S. military presence in the latter, a compromise after he repeatedly threatened in the past year to take the territory by force . Trump said he would........

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