Trump Threatens to ‘Destroy’ Iran at UN; Iranian Delegation Walks Out

The walkout matters more than the rhetoric: it signals the Iranian delegation saw the remarks as a public ultimatum rather than a negotiating position, which narrows the room for any mediated off-ramp. For markets, the read-through is less about the speech itself than about whether this hardens into a durable deadlock, since that is what tends to feed through to energy and risk sentiment. Whether either side reopens a channel after such a public rupture is the open question.