Trump claims US and Iran on verge of signing peace agreement, but Tehran says no final decision made
by Andrew Roth and Aram Roston in Washington and Will from World news | The Guardian on (#7684B)
Iranian leadership has not confirmed claim, after the US president announced that planned strikes on Iran had been cancelled
Donald Trump claimed on Thursday that Washington and Tehran were on the verge of signing a peace agreement, and announced that he was cancelling fresh missile strikes, after two days of escalating attacks on Iran that threatened to collapse the fragile ceasefire.
His comments followed a new bout of public diplomacy by social media, but were dismissed by Iran's foreign ministry, which said a final decision on an agreement had not been reached.
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