The United States is negotiating with itself, an Iranian military spokesman has said, according to state media, a day after US President Donald Trump said Tehran wants to make a deal to end the war.

“Has the level of your inner struggle reached the stage of you negotiating with yourself?” Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for the unified command of Iran’s armed forces, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, taunted the US leadership.

“People like us can never get along with people like you.”

Zolfaqari said US investments and pre-war energy prices would not return as long as Washington does not accept that regional stability is guaranteed by Iranian armed forces.