Donald Trump delays China talks; claims Iran’s regime is “obliterated”, and more

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  Donald Trump said he had asked China to delay his much-anticipated meeting with Xi Jinping,

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  quote, because of the war, and needed to stay in Washington.

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  Mr Trump had previously suggested suspending the summit after saying China should also help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

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  But on Monday, Scott Besant, America's Treasury Secretary,

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  said that any delay would be only because of logistics.

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  Mr Trump said America had hit more than 7,000 targets in Iran and,

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  quote, literally obliterated the regime.

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  He said America was ready to negotiate.

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  but that he had, quote, no idea who Iran's leaders were,

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  claiming that they are all dead and that nobody's seen Mishtabah Khamenei,

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  Iran's new supreme leader.

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  Masoud Pazeshkian, Iran's president,

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