BBC's Lyse Doucet Says Trump's Iran Peace Talks Claims Are 'Utterly Fanciful'

President Donald Trump disembarks Air Force One on Monday.

A senior BBC journalist has slapped down Donald Trump’s “utterly fanciful” claims about peace talks to end the Iran war.

Lyse Ducet, the corporation’s highly-respected senior international correspondent, said suggestions that vice-president JD Vance could have face-to-face negotiations with senior Iranian officials were “just not going to happen”.

Trump claimed on Monday that talks to end the war were underway as he backed...