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US President Donald Trump has claimed that diplomatic efforts with Iran are making significant headway, saying Tehran is interested in reaching an agreement with Washington.
“We’re dealing with them now. They want to make a deal,” Trump told reporters on Friday, adding that the two sides had made “a lot of progress”. He did not elaborate on the ongoing discussions.
Trump also dismissed the suggestion that the United States was at war with Iran, claiming that Washington had enforced what he described as “the greatest blockade in military history” against Tehran.
“We’re not fighting,” he said, comparing the situation with the Russia-Ukraine conflict. He further claimed that no US personnel had been killed over the past seven months.
Despite downplaying the confrontation, Trump acknowledged that American forces had recently struck Iranian military equipment, including an air defence system.
“They built a little bit of an anti-aircraft device, and we knocked it out in about 15 minutes, maybe five,” he said, without disclosing the location or timing of the operation.
Trump also asserted that Iran’s navy had been destroyed and that the country was grappling with inflation of 300 percent.
Source : Al Jazeera
