--- title: LIVE: Obama Speaks on Iraq Crisis description: Live from Martha's Vineyard canonical: https://time.com/3101437/live-obama-speaks-on-iraq-crisis/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-11T20:49:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:36:24.561Z article:section: Politics og:title: LIVE: Obama Speaks on Iraq Crisis og:description: Live from Martha's Vineyard og:url: https://time.com/3101437/live-obama-speaks-on-iraq-crisis/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55f5fdb7569b34e6/69869f1713c79f40f51936a3/452979330.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Barack Obama og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: LIVE: Obama Speaks on Iraq Crisis twitter:description: Live from Martha's Vineyard twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55f5fdb7569b34e6/69869f1713c79f40f51936a3/452979330.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # LIVE: Obama Speaks on Iraq Crisis by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Aug 11, 2014 8:49 PM CUT  President Barack Obama President Barack ObamaAndrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Aug 11, 2014 8:49 PM CUT President Obama is set to deliver a statement from Martha’s Vineyard on the situation in Iraq at 4:45 p.m. ET. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3101437/live-obama-speaks-on-iraq-crisis/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3101437/live-obama-speaks-on-iraq-crisis/"},"headline":"LIVE: Obama Speaks on Iraq Crisis","datePublished":"2014-08-11T20:49:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:36:24.561Z","description":"Live from Martha's Vineyard","url":"https://time.com/3101437/live-obama-speaks-on-iraq-crisis/","keywords":["Iraq"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55f5fdb7569b34e6/69869f1713c79f40f51936a3/452979330.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55f5fdb7569b34e6/69869f1713c79f40f51936a3/452979330.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Barack Obama","caption":"President Barack Obama","creditText":"Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/iraq/","name":"Iraq"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3101437/live-obama-speaks-on-iraq-crisis/","name":"LIVE: Obama Speaks on Iraq Crisis"}}]}] ```