Crossfiled19 outlets · filed 21 September 2026
Iran-US war latest: Iranian president hits out at ‘bully’ Trump but says Tehran is ready for dialogue
Masoud Pezeshkian showed images of girls at the school in Minab, dozens of whom were killed in a strike on the first day of the war
ABC News
What the coverage shows
Coverage converges on the exchange of threats and defiance at the U.N., with multiple outlets foregrounding Trump’s “annihilate” line and Iran’s pushback. CBS News, BBC News, The Guardian US and ABC News center Pezeshkian’s response, while Reuters, PBS NewsHour and CBS also note sidelined diplomacy or meetings between U.S. and Iranian officials. A separate cluster, led by NBC News, Axios, Reuters, CBS News, BBC News and the South China Morning Post, shifts to Trump’s rare tarmac welcome for Xi and the wider Trump-Xi summit.
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