US and Iran Wrangle Over Talks With No End to War Yet in Sight

The White House insisted that peace talks with Iran are ongoing, even as Tehran publicly rejected US overtures and issued fresh conditions of its own to end the conflict that’s wreaked havoc across the Middle East and global markets.

President Donald Trump claimed Iran was desperate to make a deal to end the nearly month-long hostilities. “They want to make a deal so badly, but they’re afraid to say it,” Trump told congressional Republicans Wednesday night in Washington.

“The United States has been engaged over the last three days in productive conversations,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitttold reporters ...