Trump postpones strikes on power plants, says Iran wants to make a deal; Iranian speaker labels talks ‘fake news’; fuel rationing becomes possibility

US President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters in Palm Beach after his social media post about postponing strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure, said Iran wanted to “make a deal”.

“We’d like to make a deal too,” he said.

He claimed the US could have blown up Iran’s largest electric generating plants in “one shot”.

“Why would they want that? So they called, I didn’t call. They called. They want to make a deal, and we are very willing to make a deal,” Trump said.

“It’s got to be a good deal, and it’s got to be no more wars, no more nuclear weapons. They’re not going to have nuclear weapons anymore. They’re agreeing to that. Any of that stuff, there is no deal.”