Iran’s deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh has said Donald Trump “talks too much” when asked about the US president’s recent comments suggesting the US would “start dropping bombs again” if no deal is reached, Al Jazeera reports.

“The American side tweets a lot, talks a lot. Sometimes confusing, sometimes, you know, contradictory,” Saeed Khatibzadeh told journalists on the sidelines of an annual Turkish diplomatic forum in the southern province of Antalya. “I don’t know exactly what he meant.”

Khatibzadeh said Iran believes “war cannot lead to any positive outcome”, but it’s ready to keep defending itself if under attack.

“We will fight until the last Iranian soldier.”

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