President Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el‑Sisi — President of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
The “Gaza Plan” is President Trump’s 20‑point “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict” (released Sept. 2025). Its announced Phase Two establishes a transitional, technocratic Palestinian administration for Gaza (the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza/NCAG), begins full demilitarization (requiring Hamas and other groups to be disarmed), and launches large‑scale reconstruction under international oversight (a Board of Peace, an International Stabilisation Force, vetting and retraining of police, and reconstruction/ economic initiatives).
The “Board of Peace” (also called Council of Peace) is the international oversight body created by the 20‑point Gaza plan; the White House says it will be chaired by President Trump and include an Executive Board (named members include Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, Sir Tony Blair and others) with a Gaza Executive Board and a High Representative on the ground (Nickolay Mladenov). Its stated authority is strategic oversight, mobilizing funding/resources, and supervising the NCAG and Gaza reconstruction under the plan — not a UN peacekeeping mandate except insofar as governments/organisations agree to cooperate.
The dam discussed is the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The dispute: Egypt (and Sudan) fear the GERD will reduce Nile flows downstream; Ethiopia says it needs the dam for electricity and development. Core disagreements are over filling schedules, water‑release rules and drought resilience; Egypt seeks legally binding rules and guarantees, Ethiopia insists on sovereignty and wants implementation without external veto.
No — the United States did not finance construction of the GERD. The U.S. has engaged diplomatically (periodic mediation and statements; past U.S. officials have been involved in talks), but financing has come mainly from Ethiopia (domestic funding and international bonds). U.S. official involvement to date has been diplomacy and mediation efforts rather than direct funding of the dam’s construction.
The president’s claim refers broadly to past U.S. actions against Iran’s nuclear programme; there is no acknowledged U.S. public record that the U.S. bombed an Iranian nuclear facility and thereby prevented a nuclear weapon. The United States and Israel have carried out covert and cyber operations (e.g., Stuxnet targeting Iran’s Natanz enrichment site) and sanctions, and U.S. officials have at times mentioned covert actions, but no official U.S. admission exists that Washington bombed an Iranian nuclear plant to stop a weapon; independent reporting documents cyberattacks and covert efforts but not a confirmed U.S. bombing that produced the outcome the president described.