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Iran said on Monday there were no talks under way with the United States and no plans for any meetings, contradicting Donald Trump who had ‌cited talks he said would take place that afternoon as justification for calling off attacks.

Over the weekend Trump repeated a pattern that has emerged throughout the past five months: announcing plans for "massive attacks" on Iran, only to cancel them at the last minute.

Iran's Foreign ⁠Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei rejected the claim, saying no negotiations with the United States were taking place and no meetings were scheduled. Iran had no plans to host foreign delegations or send negotiators abroad in the coming days, he said.

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[-] homes@piefed.world 53 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Iran doesn’t need weapons. They can just keep playing mind games with Donald Trump until he goes fucking insane.

I hate to admit that I find this incredibly entertaining

I also hate to admit that I miss the hilarious AI generated Lego videos

[-] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago

Wait, this is the sane version of him?!

[-] random_character_a@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

He means relatively...i think

[-] homes@piefed.world 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That is what I meant, but only because I’m old enough to remember what he was like in the 80s and 90s

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

Iran has an entire team devoted to studying Trump's "psychology." They know they can't negotiate with him, because whatever they agree to today, he'll tear up or deny tomorrow.

Before he was president, at least one law firm had a rule that at least two lawyers had to be in a room with Trump at all times, because he would always later deny anything he had agreed to with a single lawyer. So it took two to back each other up, so he couldn't lie later about what was said in the meeting.

Iran understand how that feels.

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

They can just keep playing mind games with Donald Trump until he goes fucking insane.

Goes?!?!?

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