US president Donald Trump has appeared to confirm – presumably unintentionally – that Israel has been targeting and killing Iranian figures who are, or could be, discussing potential peace deals with the US.

Trump claimed that the US is talking to a ‘most respected’ Iranian leader, but said that he couldn’t name him because “I don’t want him to be killed”. And as if further confirmation was needed, he slipped and said:

They’ve wiped out – we’ve wiped out – we’ve wiped out everybody.

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Of course, Iran denies even having any such conversations and says it will continue the war the US and Israel started until its own war aims are achieved. So Trump may well be making up his claim – but the Freudian slip of his excuse for not naming a name still speaks volumes.

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