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WASHINGTON / TEHRAN — President Trump announced Tuesday that the United States is engaged in "very friendly negotiations" with Iran. The Iranian Foreign Ministry announced the same day that Iran currently has no negotiations with the United States and added that they could not "verify who the U.S. President was, in fact, having such extremely friendly negotiations with" except that "it isn't Iran."
The statements were made approximately eight hours apart.
Trump made his remarks at a General Motors assembly plant in Michigan, where he
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