Six months of the Iran war – as told through Trump’s social media posts
Visualising how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. This week marks six months since the United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran. In that time, US President Donald Trump has published at least 319 posts mentioning Iran on Truth Social, his social media platform – roughly one every 14 hours. Read in sequence, these posts, or “truths” as they are known on the platform, form a record of how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. Al Jazeera analysed these posts.
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Later that evening, Trump posted: “Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead”, referring to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had led the country since 1989. On May 18, Trump said he had cancelled a planned attack at the request of Gulf leaders.
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Visualising how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. This week marks six months since the United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran. In that time, US President Donald Trump has published at least 319 posts mentioning Iran on Truth Social, his social media platform – roughly one every 14 hours. Read in sequence, these posts, or “truths” as they are known on the platform, form a record of how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. Al Jazeera analysed these posts.
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Visualising how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. This week marks six months since the United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran. In that time, US President Donald Trump has published at least 319 posts mentioning Iran on Truth Social, his social media platform – roughly one every 14 hours. Read in sequence, these posts, or “truths” as they are known on the platform, form a record of how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. Al Jazeera analysed these posts.
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Visualising how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. This week marks six months since the United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran. In that time, US President Donald Trump has published at least 319 posts mentioning Iran on Truth Social, his social media platform – roughly one every 14 hours. Read in sequence, these posts, or “truths” as they are known on the platform, form a record of how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. Al Jazeera analysed these posts.
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Visualising how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. This week marks six months since the United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran. In that time, US President Donald Trump has published at least 319 posts mentioning Iran on Truth Social, his social media platform – roughly one every 14 hours. Read in sequence, these posts, or “truths” as they are known on the platform, form a record of how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. Al Jazeera analysed these posts.
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Visualising how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. This week marks six months since the United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran. In that time, US President Donald Trump has published at least 319 posts mentioning Iran on Truth Social, his social media platform – roughly one every 14 hours. Read in sequence, these posts, or “truths” as they are known on the platform, form a record of how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. Al Jazeera analysed these posts.
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Visualising how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. This week marks six months since the United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran. In that time, US President Donald Trump has published at least 319 posts mentioning Iran on Truth Social, his social media platform – roughly one every 14 hours. Read in sequence, these posts, or “truths” as they are known on the platform, form a record of how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. Al Jazeera analysed these posts.
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Visualising how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. This week marks six months since the United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran. In that time, US President Donald Trump has published at least 319 posts mentioning Iran on Truth Social, his social media platform – roughly one every 14 hours. Read in sequence, these posts, or “truths” as they are known on the platform, form a record of how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. Al Jazeera analysed these posts.
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Visualising how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. This week marks six months since the United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran. In that time, US President Donald Trump has published at least 319 posts mentioning Iran on Truth Social, his social media platform – roughly one every 14 hours. Read in sequence, these posts, or “truths” as they are known on the platform, form a record of how a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president’s own words. Al Jazeera analysed these posts.
