President Donald Trump attacked The New York Times in a series of social media posts for reporting the Iran war achieved none of Trump’s major goals—a widely held view the White House is actively trying to combat.
Vice President JD Vance, US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner wait to meet with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ahead of high-level talks aimed at advancing a deal to end the Middle East conflict. (Photo by Nathan Howard / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump called the Times “TREASONOUS” and “CORRUPT” in a Truth Social post on Sunday over a news analysis headlined, “What Changed After Almost Four Months of War? Analysts Say Not Much.”
Trump, who said he would add the story to a lawsuit against the Times, claimed Iran’s military is “DONE” and “their two top sets of leaders are GONE, their Inflation is at 250%, their Economy is BROKEN, their Soldiers aren’t being paid, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN, THE OIL IS GUSHING, and the U.S. Stock Market and Jobs are at record HIGHS.”
Trump has said repeatedly he attacked Iran on Feb. 28 to pressure it to end its nuclear program, though the agreement between the U.S. and Iran reached last week to end the military conflict defers nuclear negotiations to a second round of talks.
Trump also said at the time he also wanted to “destroy their missiles,” but the agreement doesn’t address Iran’s missile program and he said last week it’s “OK” for it to keep some of its missiles, because “if other countries have them, it’s a little bit unfair for [Iran] not to have some.”
Another stated objective—facilitating the overthrow of Iran’s government by its people—was also unfulfilled, though Trump claimed last week he “never cared about regime change.”
Trump characterized the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz as a victory in his Truth Social post on Sunday, though Iran said Saturday it was closing the strait again, citing Israel’s continued attacks in southern Lebanon.
The war showed Iran it has a new tool to exert leverage over its enemies: shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. intelligence assessments found, CNN reported last week, citing anonymous sources. Iran’s lead negotiator, parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, also said last week in an interview with state broadcaster IRIB that closing the key oil passage is “a potential capacity that had never been activated . . . but our enemies—God created them fools—turned that potential into reality,” he said.
“This is not a document the United States agreed to because the war demonstrated a new U.S. military superiority,” MIT professor Caitlin Talmadge told The New York Times of the memorandum of understanding. “I think it’s a document that has resulted from the fact that the United States bit off more than it could chew and doesn’t want to escalate.”
69%. That’s the share of respondents in a new CBS poll who said the conflict with Iran was not worth the costs for the U.S. Among Republicans, 42% said the agreement to end the war is about equally as beneficial for Iran as it is the U.S.
U.S. and Iranian negotiators concluded an initial round of talks in Switzerland on Monday. The negotiations address a number of outstanding issues in the memorandum of understanding signed last week, including the future of Iran’s nuclear program and lifting of U.S. sanctions. Pakistani and Qatari media said the negotiators made “encouraging progress.” Vice President JD Vance announced Iran had agreed to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to resume nuclear inspections. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also said Monday the U.S. issued a 60-day license allowing Iran to sell oil.
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