President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday night that negotiations with Iran to end the war continue despite the Iranian leadership claiming no such talks were taking place.
Speaking to Republicans at the annual Republican National Congressional Committee fundraising dinner, Trump said Iran’s leaders want to make a deal “badly” to end the U.S. military campaign in the Middle Eastern country but are afraid to say so because “they figure they’ll be killed by their own people.”
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He continued, “They’re also afraid they’ll be killed by us.”
However, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview with Iranian state TV on Wednesday evening that no talks have occurred.
“No negotiations have happened with the enemy until now, and we do not plan on any negotiations,” Araghchi said, according to the Associated Press.
Negotiations between the United States and Iran have been fraught, with the president and the White House maintaining that talks
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