At the United Nations General Assembly, American and Iranian delegations met through Qatari mediators to negotiate an end to seven months of war — even as President Trump threatened to annihilate the Islamic Republic from the same podium. The Strait of Hormuz, one of civilization's most vital arteries, sits at the center of a dispute that has already claimed sailors, schoolchildren, and merchant mariners. History has long known this paradox: that the machinery of diplomacy and the machinery of destruction are often operated by the same hands, sometimes in the same hour.
Iran, U.S. Resume Talks at U.N. as Trump Threatens 'Annihilation'
One crew member killed in Strait of Hormuz attack; 27 evacuated. Eight suicide attempts among 5,000 sailors on USS Abraham Lincoln during deployment. At least 169 killed in Yemen fighting. School strike in Minab killed approximately 150 people including 120 children on first day of war.