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Donald Trump has claimed Iran is negotiating with the U.S. to end the current war but is “afraid” to admit it.

The 79-year-old president made the remark at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual fundraising dinner on Wednesday evening.

“They are negotiating, by the way,” Trump claimed of Iran. “They want to make a deal so badly but they are afraid to say it. Because they figure they will be killed by their own people. They are also afraid they will be killed by us.”

His comments directly contradict Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, who said the country was not in negotiations with the U.S. over a resolution to the war and had “no intention” to have any such conversations.

Speaking on Iran’s state TV news channel, he said the U.S. had been “sending various messages through different intermediaries” for several days.

Cry wolf harder there moron.

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[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They may have found enough construction paper and crayons to explain to him how bad things are going and exactly how bad they may have fucked up in the short and long-term.

At the moment he seems considerably more nervous about this than virtually every other thing that he is managed to screw.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Probably not. He gets 2 minute videos of shit blowing up. I wish I was making that up, but that's what he's getting: a highlight reel of explosions.

Edit to add: pick a source https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=trump+iran+video+briefings&noai=1&ia=web

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hope he saw that animated "explanation" video Iran did (not the Lego one, the shorter animated one) because, while it's probably too complicated for him to understand, that's the closest "briefing" I've ever seen to his level of stupidity.

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I've not seen those, I don't suppose you have a link handy you could share ?

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Here's the animated one; here's the Lego one. And the first one on this page is (afaik) their most recent.

Damn. That's well done.

Thanks very much