Former Trump national security adviser: More Iran talks ‘probably a waste of time’ 

Victoria Coates, a former deputy national security adviser to President Trump, agreed with the president’s pessimism around negotiating with Tehran officials to end the Iran war. 

Trump told reporters Wednesday he did not “want to deal with [Iran] anymore” and called the country’s negotiators “scum” at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey. 

“At this point, it probably is a waste of time, from what the president said in Ankara over the last couple days, that this is essentially not a group you can deal with,” Coates told NewsNation’s Blake Burman on Thursday.

Iran and the U.S. have exchanged strikes this week over accused violations of a ceasefire agreement. The two sides signed a framework agreement to restart peace........

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