I guess we’ll know who’s lying this afternoon.

“I was asked to by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, by Qatar, and by Iran to hold off strikes,” Trump said. “It would have been a massive attack.” He added: “When the allies asked to call it off, you gotta say, Well, let’s see.”

“I asked the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, ‘What would you rather have us do?’” Trump said. “He said, ‘We would prefer a deal rather than an attack.’” And more: “Allies think there is a deal,” Trump explained. “There is a deal on Hormuz, and it will be a deal on the nuclear.”

Iranian officials said there are currently no negotiations with the United States and that Tehran is not planning to send or host any delegations “these days.”

“We currently do not have negotiations with America,” and Iran had no plans to host foreign delegations or send negotiators abroad in the coming days, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei told reporters.

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