Iran's Mehr news agency said on Sunday that President Trump sought to justify, in the agency's wording, costly US aggression against Iran that has provoked economic problems by claiming "Iran is willing to make a deal at any cost, but I will not sign any imperfect deal." Mehr called the assertion "absurd," saying it masks the failure of the aggression and Iran's economic difficulties. Trump added the war with Iran would end before or shortly after the US midterm elections.