Top updates: Trump says US has won war in Iran, Tehran rejects US claims about talks

United States President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that his country has won the war in Iran, and that it was only “fake news” portals that were claiming otherwise.

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth asserted that “never in history has a modern military…been so rapidly and historically obliterated”.

There was no immediate response from Iran to the US’ claims.

Here are more top updates from the conflict in West Asia:

• Trump, while claiming that the US has won the war in Iran, also said: “There won’t be any nuclear weapons. Iran has agreed to that.” He made the statement two days after directing the Department of War to postpone military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for five days following “good and productive conversations” between Washington and Tehran. Iran, however, had claimed that it was the US president who “backed down” after learning that it would target all power plants in West Asia.
• On Wednesday, the Iranian military rejected Trump’s claims about the negotiations, state-owned Fars news agency reported. “Has the level of your internal conflicts reached the state of negotiating with yourselves?” military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaghari was quoted as having asked in a video. He added that Washington should not describe its failure as an agreement.
• The Iranian news agency quoted...

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