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During the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Donald Trump delivered a speech targeting Iran, prompting members of the Iranian delegation to stage a walkout. Trump stated that the United States would hit Iran hard unless a deal is reached, though he indicated any agreement is unlikely before the US midterms. Meanwhile, discussions took place on the sidelines between US and Iranian delegations through mediators. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff noted progress in the mediation, though no major breakthroughs emerged. Officials confirmed that Donald Trump will not be meeting directly with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, leaving negotiations to aides on the sidelines.

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00:00And we're now being joined by White House correspondent Kelly Mayer from New York.
00:06Kelly, all eyes are on the UN General Assembly.
00:09Donald Trump has already delivered his speech in which he made some scathing attacks at Iran, calling Iran a bully.
00:19In fact, once again, he's threatened Iran that the United States is going to hit Iran very hard,
00:24else it should strike a deal as soon as possible.
00:30Yeah, I think the comments from President Trump were something we've heard before,
00:35but not on the world stage, like at the UN and in front of the Iranian delegation,
00:41which then some of them got up and walked out.
00:44Another one just kind of stared straight ahead and heard what the president was saying.
00:50But this was something that he made clear that this is something he wants to make a decision on,
00:55whether to make a deal or not.
00:56He also said he doesn't think that this is going to happen before the midterm.
01:00So that's something that he feels this won't be complete before U.S. voters go to the polls in November.
01:07But then at the same time, the action was really on the sidelines when you had the U.S.
01:12and Iranian delegations going back and forth, really.
01:16Special Envoy Steve Wyckoff posted on X tonight that they would go back and forth through the mediators
01:21between the U.S. and Iran, and he felt that there was progress made in the mediation.
01:26The mediators will continue to work through this, but no big breakthroughs came out of that.
01:32So, Kelly, what happened in the meeting between the officials of United States and Iran?
01:37There were positive remarks that were made by the United States president after the meeting,
01:41but what exactly was discussed in this meeting?
01:46So in the behind closed doors, there was the meeting between the U.S. and Iranian delegation
01:51that the mediators were going back and forth between.
01:54We don't know the specifics of what was discussed.
01:57There wasn't a lot of nitty-gritty details that came out from it.
02:00All that we heard was what Wyckoff posted or versus what the Iranian delegation is saying.
02:06And it's hard to know exactly what was said and if anything will change from this.
02:12And again, even the president said himself that we're not expecting any movement or any deal to be made
02:17before the midterms.
02:19He feels as though the Iranians don't want to see a deal because they see how this is impacting
02:23the Republican Party and the president ahead of the midterms.
02:27But we'll see.
02:28I mean, it shows that there are discussions happening, but not necessarily anything coming from it.
02:34Is there also a possibility, Kelly, that a meeting between Donald Trump and Iranian President
02:39Masoud Pazeshkir, who's also arrived in New York, that happens?
02:43So as of right now, here in the U.S., the president is going to be making his way back
02:48to Washington.
02:49He was finishing up a meeting with, I believe it was, the president of Venezuela.
02:55So after that, he's going to be coming back to Washington.
02:58So we don't think there was any sort of meeting between the president and the Iranian president.
03:02All of this was happening on the sidelines by his aides, Special Envoy Steve Wyckoff and Jared Kushner,
03:08his son-in-law.
03:08But obviously, too, the president not only had his speech, but then he was also meeting with other world leaders.
03:14So I'm not even sure where he would have squeezed that in if he could have.
03:18But he left it really up to his negotiators to work through.
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