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		</div><p>Donald Trump has said Iran is lying about having arrested 17 Iranian nationals recruited by the CIA to spy on the country’s nuclear and military sites.</p>
<p><em>“That’s totally a false story. That’s another lie,”</em> the US president told reporters at the White House.</p>
<p>In Tehran, an intelligence official told a news conference that the arrests took place over recent months, and those taken into custody worked on “sensitive sites” in military and nuclear facilities.</p>
<p>Intelligence chiefs said some of the 17 have already been sentenced to death, but did not say how many.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Report of Iran capturing CIA spies is totally false. Zero truth. Just more lies and propaganda (like their shot down drone) put out by a Religious Regime that is Badly Failing and has no idea what to do. Their Economy is dead, and will get much worse. Iran is a total mess!</p>
<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1153290669424807936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Mr Trump also said Iran has “disrespected” the US, and that it is “getting harder” for him to want to make a deal with Tehran to replace the 2015 nuclear deal he pulled out of last year.</p>
<p>He called Iran a “very mixed up country” with big economic problems and a restive population.</p>
<p><em>“They have a lot of problems,”</em> he said. <em>“So, whatever it is, I’m just going to sit back and wait” to see whether Tehran will agree to negotiate limits on its nuclear programme and other activities.</em></p>
<p><em>“If they want to make a deal, frankly it’s getting harder for me to want to make a deal with Iran because they’ve behaved very badly. They’re saying bad things.”</em></p>
<p>Tensions with the West escalated on Friday when Iran seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. On Monday, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt accused Tehran of “an act of state piracy” that he said must be met with a co-ordinated international reaction.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just spoke 2 Iranian FM Zarif &;expressed extreme disappointment that having assured me last Sat Iran wanted 2 deescalate situation they have behaved in the opposite way.This has 2 be about actions not words if we are to find a way through.British shipping must &; will be protected</p>
<p>&mdash; Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jeremy_Hunt/status/1152574307844988928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In his comments in the Oval Office, Mr Trump also claimed “there’s a lot of proof” that the US destroyed an Iranian drone last week over the Strait of Hormuz, although the US has provided no public evidence. Iran denies it lost a drone.</p>
<p>The president appeared to confirm news reports that the USS Boxer used an electronic jamming device to bring down the drone, rather than shoot it down with a missile or other conventional weapon.</p>
<p><em>“The drone came down, you know how it came down, with a new technology that’s actually quite amazing,”</em> he said.</p>
<p>The US military last week refused to say what kind of weapon it used against the drone.</p>
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