US could strike Iran this weekend, envoy says

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The United States could strike Iran as soon as this weekend, a US envoy said Friday, after mounting threats by both Washington and Israel. “Could there be a strike this weekend? Absolutely,” Tom Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkey and point man on Syria who does not have a direct role on Iran, said in an interview with podcast host Mario Nawfal. For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. President Donald Trump “is very clear.

He’s open and available and accessible to a deal and we’ve been at the table for months and months and months,” Barrack said in the interview, a snippet of which was aired on Israeli army radio. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces elections Tuesday, in recent days has repeatedly vowed to topple the clerical state in Iran, following two major bombing campaigns against Iran since last year. Trump has also signaled an openness to resuming strikes on Iran after a long deadlock in diplomacy although he earlier said it would not happen before US congressional elections on November 3.

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Al Arabiya English reports a US envoy's remark that the US could strike Iran this weekend, and keeps the claim attributed to him in the headline and the body. It tells the reader that the envoy has no direct role on Iran and that Trump earlier said there would be no strike before the 3 November elections. Nothing in it misleads.

What it gets right

“who does not have a direct role on Iran”
The article tells the reader that the speaker has no direct role on Iran policy. That lets the reader weigh how much his warning of a strike is worth, rather than taking it as a decision.
“although he earlier said it would not happen before US congressional elections on November 3”
The article sets Trump's own earlier statement against the envoy's claim. The reader gets the election timing that bears on whether a weekend strike is likely.
“after mounting threats by both Washington and Israel”
The article names both the US and Israel as the parties making the threats, in its own voice. The reader knows who is threatening whom.

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