Trump says 'Iran lies and cheats' as IRGC emerges as dominant force in negotiations with US

As President Donald Trump voiced growing frustration Wednesday with Iranian negotiators, accusing them of lying and cheating, the latest escalation has exposed an even more fundamental problem for Washington: whether the officials at the negotiating table have the power to deliver an agreement — or whether anyone in Tehran does. "I don’t know if we’re going to have a deal. We may just do it without a deal," Trump said at the NATO summit in Ankara . "These people, they lie and they cheat." But Tr