President Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will square off this week at the United Nations Typical Assembly, as Washington threatens nevertheless extra sanctions to escalate its by now formidable strain on Tehran.

The annual collecting of earth leaders has been relegated to a mainly digital format by the novel coronavirus pandemic and will function few of the sideline meetings that have designed the assembly a signature function for the world’s diplomats.

It will also take place as Iran and the world’s big powers are searching toward the November presidential election to see if Mr. Trump’s guidelines will continue on for yet another four a long time or if Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for president, will choose about and redirect American foreign policy.

Mr. Trump, who will seem ahead of the assembly by teleconference Tuesday early morning, will converse just a working day just after the White Dwelling options to unveil new sanctions aimed at deterring arms profits to Iran and pressuring Tehran to concur to a new offer on significantly more durable phrases than those set by the 2015 Iran nuclear accord, from which the administration withdrew two a long time ago.

“If we earn, Iran will be calling us within the initially week,” Mr. Trump mentioned final week. “They’re dying to make a offer.”