US war on Iran: Trump will ‘declare victory and go home’, embracing the ‘Greenland option’

François Picard welcomes Scott Anderson, journalist, war correspondent and best-selling author of "King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah and the Revolution That Forged Modern Iran". For Anderson, there is a striking parallel between 1979 and 2026: Washington’s persistent misreading of Iran, and the consequences that follow. “Over the years, the CIA and the Pentagon have war-gamed out war scenarios with Iran twelve or thirteen times,” Anderson explains. “And in every scenario, the first thing the Iranian government does is seize or close the Strait of Hormuz. That was a given. So how did that not occur to the Trump administration in starting this war?”Now, nearly seven months into the US war with Iran, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has delivered a defiant address to the UN General Assembly, accusing the United States of “terrorism” a day after President Donald Trump threatened to “annihilate” the Islamic Republic if a deal could not be reached. Yet Pezeshkian also left the door open to diplomacy, insisting that Iran was ready for negotiations while refusing to accept “the language of force”. His message to Trump was unequivocal: “Yes they did hit us, but we did not bend the knee...