President Donald Trump's shifting deadlines for ending Iran war
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“Donald Trump's first primetime address since the start of the Iran war on Wednesday evening left several questions unanswered.”
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— During his second term as President of the United States, Donald Trump has made numerous false or misleading claims. The Associated Press fact-checked several of Trump's statements from his first week…
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— Donald Trump's first tenure as the president of the United States began on January 20, 2017, when he was inaugurated as the 45th president, and ended on January 20, 2021.
Trump, a member of the Republ…
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— Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO) is a term that gained prominence in May 2025 after many threats and reversals during the trade war US president Donald Trump initiated with his administration's "Liber…
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“He said the core strategic objectives of the US-Israeli military operation were 'nearing completion' a month into the war, and projected it would last another two to three weeks.”
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— On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from U.S. president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader …
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— On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel started a war with surprise airstrikes on sites and cities across Iran, assassinating Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several other Iranian officials …
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— Beginning on 28 February 2026, the governments of the United States under Donald Trump and Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu launched coordinated joint attacks on various sites in Iran, which started t…
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“The BBC's Chief International Correspondent, Lyse Doucet, pointed out that the US president's deadlines have 'always been fluid' and that his address did not provide much clarity.”
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— The Twelve-Day War was an armed conflict between Iran and Israel which lasted from 13 to 24 June 2025. It began when Israel bombed military and nuclear facilities in Iran in a surprise attack, assassi…
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— On 3 January 2020, Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general, was assassinated by an American drone strike ordered by U.S. president Donald Trump near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, while trav…
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— Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to th…
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