Just hours after the Iranian official made that observation to Pleitgen, Trump doubled down on the mixed messages by denying the US is trying to talk to Tehran at all. They day before, the President had threatened on Twitter that a fight with the US would be "the official end of Iran." On Monday, an Iranian energy official announced the country has increased its uranium enrichment fourfold and informed the International Atomic Energy Agency. He met with his Iranian counterpart, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. "Forty years of Islamic Revolution in Iran have shown that you cannot talk to Iran through threats...

Source: CNN May 20, 2019 21:03 UTC