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By Parisa Hafezi, Humeyra Pamuk and Jana Choukeir UNITED NATIONS/DUBAI, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a speech at the UN on Wednesday that Tehran would never surrender to the US but still believes in diplomacy, a day after President Donald Trump used the same forum to threaten to annihilate Iran. The duelling speeches at the annual UN General Assembly in New York bookended the first shuttle talks between the United States and Iran for months, which appeared to have yielded no concessions in the public stance of either side towards ending the Middle East war. In his speech, Pezeshkian defended Iran's military actions as defensive, and insisted Iran was not seeking nuclear weapons. In a potential new flashpoint, Iran also threatened to act against its neighbours if they abide by new US sanctions intended to ground Iranian civilian aircraft worldwide. Washington has said it will impose so-called secondary sanctions against any country that allows Iranian flights after Wednesday. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, told state TV Iran would ensure neighbouring countries' airports could not function if they stop Iranian flights. The annual UN gathering in New York provided the occasion on Tuesday for Iranian and U.S. officials to hold their first known indirect talks since a ceasefire collapsed in July, with Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner communicating through mediators on the sidelines. Steve and Jared had a very productive meeting today with mediators of Iran, Trump said on Tuesday after his own speech. I think there's a lot of momentum for them to make a deal. It's what we're hearing from everybody. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said Tehran had engaged with Washington through a Qatari mediator and conveyed conditions, including an end to the war on all fronts and a halt to US acts of aggression. Some Iranian state media initially reported that Araqchi and Witkoff had met, but Iranian officials clarified to Reuters that it was not face-to-face. IRAN HARDLINERS RESIST DIPLOMATIC MOVES The diplomatic contact in New York caused a backlash in Iranian media associated with hardliners. An opinion piece run by the semi-official Tasnim news agency, associated with the Revolutionary Guards, said Araqchi was wrong to have contacts with Witkoff and Kushner, a major gift to Trump, as Iran had already conveyed its terms. Iranian sources told Reuters the delegation had been ordered not to meet the Americans face-to-face by the Supreme National Security Council, a body that includes figures selected by Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the supreme leader. Khamenei has yet to appear in public since replacing his father, who was killed on the war's first day. One Iranian journalist covering the visit told Reuters that some hardliners viewed the trip to New York itself as an insult to the memory of the slain leader, Ali Khamenei. OIL PRICES HOLD NEAR TWO-WEEK LOW Still, the diplomatic opening helped keep oil prices near two-week lows. Brent crude hovered around $100 a barrel after surging earlier this month when Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis launched a major offensive, threatening traffic through the Red Sea, an alternative Saudi export route. The war, launched by Trump in February alongside Israel as Operation Epic Fury, has lasted nearly seven months, killing thousands of people, disrupting global energy supplies and spreading to other countries in the region particularly to Lebanon and more recently to Yemen. An interim agreement reached in June, signed by Trump and Pezeshkian, would have given Iran its main demands: lifting financial sanctions and unfreezing assets in return for talks on limiting its nuclear programme. But that deal unravelled within weeks over shipping rules in the Strait of Hormuz, conduit for a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas before the war. Iran wants to exert control and collect fees from ships that use it, which Washington rejects. In the latest reported attack in the strait, Britain's UKMTO maritime security agency said a cargo ship had been hit by projectiles, causing two casualties among the crew. The crew had been evacuated and the ship was on fire and adrift. Despite near-daily attacks, traffic through the strait has picked up in recent weeks. Oil producers pay shipping companies fees of as much as a quarter of a cargo's value to take the wartime risk of sailing through the strait with transponders switched off, before transferring crude to other vessels on the far side. Exports from the United Arab Emirates have already recovered to pre-war levels, and Saudi Arabia has sold 60 million barrels of Gulf oil for both this month and next, to be delivered beyond the strait off the coast of Oman. Nevertheless, a third of Gulf oil is estimated to be missing from global supplies. Shortages have particularly hit refined products such as diesel, causing inflation, pushing up interest rates and hurting Trump's Republicans. (Reporting by Reuters bureauxWriting by Peter GraffEditing by Ros Russell and Gareth Jones) This article originally appeared on Reuters at https://uk.news.yahoo.com/hope-progress-us-iran-hold-103122383.html
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I am the code: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety concerns
In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Donald Trump over design features that the architect believed violated building safety codes, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions and corroborating documents reviewed by The Washington Post. James McCrery II withdrew from the project last October after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions. Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Trump brushed off McCrerys concerns, they said, and the president countered that no building codes apply to White House construction. I am the code, Trump said. That episode, as described by the people familiar with the matter, offers new insight into Trumps priorities for the ballroom at a time when he is flexing executive power to fast-track construction projects across the nations capital. The interviews and documents obtained by The Post - including early ballroom designs and images Trump appeared to have marked up with his trademark black-ink Sharpie - also show how deeply involved the president has been in the details of the project. White House renovations and construction are typically handled by federal agencies required by law to comply with nationally recognized building safety standards to the maximum extent feasible, unless doing so would present a national security risk. But Trumps White House construction projects are being routed through the Executive Residence, a tiny office that is not a federal agency and is therefore exempt from rules governing agencies. The District of Columbia government has no jurisdiction to enforce local building codes on federal property. The contractors hired to design and build the ballroom are responsible for adhering to safety standards as they work nearly round-the-clock to meet Trumps ambitious deadlines, according to experts. Discussions about the safety issues in the ballrooms design continued for months after McCrery resigned, according to White House records. It is not clear from the records reviewed by The Post whether the safety issues he identified have been resolved in more recent designs by Shalom Baranes Associates, the architecture firm that replaced McCrerys firm late last year. Shalom Baranes Associates declined to comment. When Post reporters visited McCrerys office this month, he asked them to leave and not contact him again. On Tuesday, in response to questions from The Post and details about its reporting for this story, McCrery issued a statement through a spokesman. President Trump entrusted me with the earliest stages of the new ballroom design, the statement said. I am truly grateful for that honor and for the rich experience of working for him alongside all the highly talented and committed patriots at the Executive Mansion. Having completed the earliest designs, I stepped aside and a new firm was engaged. The Post previously reported that McCrery clashed with Trump over the size of the ballroom. In response to questions Tuesday, McCrery did not provide a specific reason for his resignation. A White House spokesman emailed a statement that said it would be factually false and totally inaccurate to say that McCrerys departure from the project was in any way associated with code issues. Compliance with safety codes has been a priority since the East Wing project began, and aesthetics have not outweighed fire and safety standards, the statement said. The current team of architects and consultants is responsible for designing the East Wing according to nationally recognized fire and safety codes, it said. Life safety issues have been addressed and resolved continuously as the design has evolved, the statement said. McCrery was a valued member of the initial design team of the East Wing Modernization Project, the statement said. The decision was made to move in another direction for the second phase of the project and we continue to make tremendous strides in realizing the goal of providing a world class military and functional facility for future Presidents to utilize. The ballroom is the most expensive of the projects Trump has initiated to leave his imprint on monumental D.C. The president has described the project as a gift to the American people. Polls show that it is deeply unpopular. The Post previously reported that as of March, the ballroom project was expected to cost hundreds of millions more than the administration has publicly acknowledged - and that half the cost was expected to be covered by taxpayers. Renderings show an ornate and gilded interior that departs from the simplicity of the original White House and echoes the look of the ballroom at Trumps Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, a look he has said was inspired by the Palace of Versailles in France. A March budget for the new White House ballroom included nearly $6 million in gold leaf. The project also includes secure underground facilities that Trump has said are necessary for national security. McCrery, a classical architect and professor at Catholic University of America, runs a boutique firm on Capitol Hill that specializes in designing churches, libraries and buildings for college campuses. During his first term, Trump appointed McCrery to the United States Commission of Fine Arts, a position in which the architect consulted on projects in the capital through President Joe Bidens administration. Trump handpicked McCrery Architects to design the aboveground portion of the ballroom, and the firm began drafting drawings as early as April 2025, documents show. I am honored that President Trump has entrusted me to help bring this beautiful and necessary renovation to The Peoples House, while preserving the elegance of its classical design and historical importance, McCrery said in a White House news release announcing the project. Trump was immersed in the minutiae of the project that spring and summer, often spending hours at a time discussing it at the White House with McCrery, the people with knowledge of the meetings said. The president also called McCrery on his cellphone at all hours to relay his thoughts on the design, they said. The Post reviewed draft plans and other images featuring dozens of undated handwritten notes that appeared to be from Trump to McCrery as the two worked together on early designs for the ballroom. The notes were later returned to the White House, where images show they were stored in a box containing the label Docs bearing POTUSs mark. Sharpie markings on one of the documents expanded the footprint of McCrerys sketch of a ballroom that would have seated 640 guests. The Sharpie marks also scratched out proposed service corridors, extending the ballroom the entire width of the second floor. The markings offer input on tiny details in the design, including how far decorative interior columns should extend into the ballroom or whether doors should hinge on the left or right. They emphasize a preference for Corinthian-style columns over simpler columns. And they cross out two sets of service stairs. The documents reviewed by The Post also hint at friction, previously reported by The Post and others, that grew last summer as Trump insisted on expanding the ballroom until it was nearly twice the size of the historical mansion - a size that would seat more than 1,300 guests. One document features an image of a planned data center overlaid on a map of Manhattan, a mash-up that demonstrated the data centers massive size. James, begins a note for McCrery at the top, an apparent reference to the architects concerns about the size of the ballroom, And you think we are big. Trumps growing vision for the ballroom triggered a cascade of design issues, including conflicts with building standards McCrery was trained to follow, according to the people familiar with their discussions. McCrery informed the White House that Trumps ballroom design did not meet fire safety codes, which require the majority of guests to be able to quickly exit through the main entrance during an emergency, according to the people and documents. The architect also pointed out that alternative emergency exit routes out of the building were insufficient, and that there was little in the design to prevent a kitchen fire from rapidly spreading into the event space on the floor above. In addition to fire safety concerns, Trumps desired ballroom design did not include enough toilets to accommodate the structures maximum occupancy, according to documents, and there were few options for adding more, as the event space occupied most of the buildings footprint. One early ballroom design featured just seven stalls in the womens bathroom. On Sept. 30, 2025, a White House team met to review the ballroom design, and they discussed areas of concern and comments from contractors on the project, according to a White House officials meeting notes. Life safety - big concern, the notes said. Major renovations and construction on the White House are supposed to be handled by the General Services Administration or the National Park Service, according to a memorandum of understanding governing site operations. The GSA, which handles most nonmilitary government real estate projects, has previously told The Post that it has no role in the ballroom project and Tuesday referred questions to the White House. The Park Service is acting as a pass-through for private donations to the project but is not running the construction. The Park Service did not respond to a request for comment. Instead, the work has been routed through the White House Executive Residence, an unusual arrangement that has allowed the president to dictate the terms of the project, The Post previously has reported. Typically, the GSA and other federal agencies write language into their construction contracts that allows them to enforce code compliance, according to Kevin Kampschroer, who oversaw numerous federal construction projects in a 50-year career at the GSA. While its difficult to quantify the risk of designing a structure without adequate emergency exits and other fire-protection mechanisms, Kampschroer said, bottom line is, I dont know any commercial building owner that would cheat on the fire code, because the risk is too great. The Post has not reviewed McCrerys contract with the White House but has examined the contract between the White House and the project builder, Clark Construction. The agreement says Clark must conduct its work in accordance with Federal, State, and local laws, regulations, codes, directives, or guidance provided by the Contracting Officer. The contracting officer in this case is Joshua Fisher, director of White House management and administration and an assistant to Trump. Fisher did not respond to a request for comment. Clark has hired a private company to do third-party inspection of the construction, according to a memo notifying the White House of its plan to issue a no-bid subcontract for the work. A spokesperson for Clark Construction, the projects general contractor, said in a statement, As demonstrated by our successful history delivering projects for Federal clients across the United States, we consistently follow applicable building codes and life safety requirements. Documents show that McCrery resigned the week of Oct. 20, the same week demolition began on the former East Wing. In the months that followed his resignation, documents show, the White House team continued to discuss life-safety issues and a code review for the ballroom project. It is unclear if a review was ever completed. Life safety - needs POTUS buy in, read one White House officials notes from a Nov. 6 meeting on the project. The ballroom plans should have been finalized by early June 2026, according to an initial schedule reviewed by The Post, but current and former administration officials - who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations - told The Post in late August that the president was still tweaking the design as construction continued. Refinements to the design are continuing as construction proceeds, said the White House statement to The Post. These refinements are primarily associated with the interiors. Dan Diamond contributed to this report. Related Content This article originally appeared on Washington Post at https://washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/09/23/i-am-code-trump-clashed-with-ballroom-architect-over-safety-issues/
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