\n It\u2019s been a week that began with President Trump addressing the nation for the first time since the Iran War began five weeks ago. Expectations that he might signal an end to the conflict\u2014or announce a ground offensive or a split from NATO\u2014were unmet. Instead, his 18-minute speech echoed his social media rhetoric: a mix of \u201cwe\u2019re almost done\u201d and threats of escalating attacks, including striking every Iranian power plant if a deal isn\u2019t reached. On the Strait of Hormuz, he told allies simply to \u201cjust take it.\u201d <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Iran\u2019s President reached out to Americans in an open letter, accusing Trump of acting under Israeli influence, while Foreign Minister Abbas Arachi said the country is prepared for six more months of war. Tensions spiked Friday when reports emerged that a U.S. F-15 had been shot down over Iranian territory, with State TV urging Iranians to capture the crew. Across the globe, countries felt the ripple effects of the energy crisis, while British Prime Minister Keir Starmer insisted, \u201cThis is not our conflict,\u201d despite pressure from Washington.<\/p>\n
Amid the geopolitical turmoil, the world turned its eyes skyward as four astronauts\u2014three Americans and one Canadian\u2014embarked on humanity\u2019s first lunar mission in five decades. Their ten-day, half-million-mile journey aims to fly past the far side of the Moon, scout future landing sites, and lay the groundwork for a lunar gateway station, edging ahead in the space race toward Mars.<\/p>\n
Produced by Gavin Lee, Th\u00e9ophile Vareille, Guillaume Gougeon and Laura Burloux<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a week that began with President Trump addressing the nation for the first time since the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[38,1143,537,34,49,20535,20536,5880,95,20534],"class_list":{"0":"post-50621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-syria","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-emmanuel-macron","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-moon","14":"tag-nasa","15":"tag-space","16":"tag-syria","17":"tag-the-world-this-week"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116342866785839332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}