Janet Jalil

Instead, Tehran has set out demands of its own, including compensation and guarantees that it won't come under attack again.

Iran's foreign minister Abbas Arachi said messages may have been conveyed between the US and Iran by friendly countries like Pakistan and Turkey but that didn't amount to dialogue and the fact that the US was now talking about negotiations showed how its position had weakened.

Despite being constantly rebuffed by Tehran, the White House insists that it is very close to meeting its goals in Iran.

Speaking at a Republican fundraising event in Washington, President Trump repeated that negotiations were underway.

Our correspondent David Willis told me that the conflicting messaging and President Trump's handling of the conflict is causing divisions in the Republican Party to deepen further.

We're starting to see signs of frustration on the part of lawmakers who up to now have given the Trump administration pretty wide latitude in regard to the waging of this war.

Some emerged from classified briefings

on Capitol Hill yesterday complaining about the lack of detail in regard to such things as the possible deployment of ground troops and concerns have also been expressed about the rising cost of the conflict and the lack of a timeline and indeed perhaps the most outspoken concern

was expressed by Congresswoman Nancy Mace of South Carolina.

And she said she left the briefing troubled by what she described as shifting explanations and unclear military objectives.

And she later wrote on social media that the longer this war continues, the faster it will lose the support of Congress and the American people, Jeanette.

David Willis.

Meanwhile, as attacks on Tehran continue, many Iranians are still trying to flee the country.

Dan Johnson has been reporting from the Iran-Turkey border for several weeks.

From the city of Van, he told us what he'd been hearing from people who'd recently arrived there.

They can't work out for themselves where this is heading and what they should do to try to keep themselves safe.

Iranians I've spoken to have talked about how they feel they can't trust Donald Trump, how he's not a man of his word.

But they also see that the regime is not going to give in, is not going to crumble.

Was it frightening to join those protests?

It's very frightening.