Trump Officials Scramble to Decode If His Iran Statements Are US Policy

🏛️ WASHINGTON — Trump's own officials can't confirm if he's speaking policy. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: When a president's team must publicly verify whether his statements are official, the negotiating counterpart faces a binary: ignore him or escalate on ambiguity. Tehran, reading 50/50 and "largely negotiated" simultaneously, cannot calibrate a response. Miscalculation risk is highest when the signal-sender is unreadable to his own side. Every hour of internal US confusion is a free variable Iran can exploit.