{"id":113792,"date":"2026-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/menaplus\/2026\/04\/01\/trump-will-address-the-world-tonight-on-iran-war-what-hes-gonna-say-is-anyones-bet\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:00:00","slug":"trump-will-address-the-world-tonight-on-iran-war-what-hes-gonna-say-is-anyones-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/menaplus\/2026\/04\/01\/trump-will-address-the-world-tonight-on-iran-war-what-hes-gonna-say-is-anyones-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump will address the world tonight on Iran war. 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This much is clear: <strong>More than a month in, we can all see the regional economy sliding off the table<\/strong>. The problem is that there are only two people who can do anything to stop it \u2014 one sits in DC, the other in Israel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>It feels like one of those \u2018inflection point\u2019 days, but with the Trump administration? It\u2019s <\/strong><strong>anybody\u2019s guess. <\/strong>The US press is speculating this morning that The Donald could declare the war is ending after he told reporters overnight, \u201cWe will be leaving very soon.\u201d He\u2019s due to make a televised address about the war at 9pm Eastern time tonight. (And to think we have nearly three more years of this\u2026) <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>All the more reason for banks and businesses across the region to shore up their <\/strong><strong>balance sheets<\/strong>, following the lead of UAE lenders in recent days. \u2013Patrick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, the WSJ *really* wants to see the UAE join the war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2604],"tags":[2538,2639,2603],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-113792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opening-note","tag-enterpriseam","tag-iran-war","tag-opening-note","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"cc996ec3-0ba7-4542-89f4-ad64a16157ce","order":"1","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Trump will address the world tonight on Iran war. 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