Middle East crisis live: Iran reviewing peace proposal as Trump says a deal ‘very possible’

Trump says deal with Iran is 'very possible' while Iran downplays reports of peace talks Morning and welcome to the Guardian’s continuing coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. The US and Iran have offered conflicting messages over the state of negotiations to end the war, with Donald Trump signalling the talks were “very good” and a deal “very possible”. Iranian officials, however, have sought to dampen expectations, with state media reporting that Tehran is, at most, reviewing the US’s peace proposal and considering its response via Pakistani mediators. Ebrahim Rezaei, the spokesperson of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy commission, said the proposal to end the war was merely an “American wish list” and “not a reality”. A motorist rides a scooter in Tehran near a billboard on the facade of a building depicting the strait of Hormuz with a caption in Persian reading “Forever in Iran’s Hand”. Photograph: AFP/ Still, the US president struck a positive tone last night while speaking to journalists about a possible deal, with a few threats sprinkled in. “We’ve had very good talks over the last 24 hours, and it’s very possible that we’ll make a deal,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “We’ll see whether or not they are agreeing. And if they don’t agree, they’ll end up agreeing shortly thereafter. …