Iranian official swats down Trump’s ‘desperate attempt to save face’ with ‘false claims’

President Donald Trump extended his self-imposed deadline Tuesday for when the United States would resume attacks on Iran, claiming that his decision was made “based on the fact” that Iran’s government was “seriously fractured” – a remark that one senior Iranian official mocked as a “desperate attempt to save face.”

Trump has extended his own deadlines several times amid the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, despite calling at least one of them “final.” His justifications for extending his own deadlines have varied...