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hasn't been doing quite so well, it seems.
President Trump said that talks were going very well and that he had given Tehran till April 6th to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
But Iran says it has not been negotiating.
It has not engaged in negotiations with the U.S.
One of them was a correspondent for Hezbollah's television channel who has been reporting from the south for almost 30 years.
Israel claimed without evidence he was a Hezbollah operative, in fact, a member of one of their elite forces.
But the actions that Israel described, identifying where Israeli forces were and contacts with Hezbollah, are actually normal journalistic practices.
Israel didn't comment on the other two journalists killed with him.
The drone strike killed correspondents Ali Shoaib and Fatima Ftoumi, along with cameraman Mohamed Ftoumi, in a strike on their vehicle in South Lebanon, their organization said.
Shoaib had covered South Lebanon for Hezbollah's Al-Manar television for almost 30 years.
Ftouni was a correspondent for Al Mayadeen TV, who had been reporting live earlier Saturday.
Video of the attack appeared to show a double-tap strike, two consecutive attacks on the vehicle.
The Israeli military, after the killing, accused Shoaib without providing evidence of being a Hezbollah operative.
Its description of his activities, naming locations of Israeli troops and maintaining contact with Hezbollah militants,
mirrored normal journalistic practices.
It did not mention the two others killed in the attack.
State Department says in an advisory that some organizations have relocated staff from hotels in Damascus, Syria.
This week, Iran warned it could target two luxury hotels in the Syrian capital.