President Donald Trump on Monday quipped that Iran needed better public relations staff when pressed on statements from Tehran denying his claims of significant diplomatic talks.

"The Foreign Ministry says you're not telling the truth when it comes to [ongoing negotiations]," one reporter said, leading Trump to quip "[w]ell, they're going to have to get themselves better public relations people!"

"We have had very, very strong talks. We'll see where they lead. We have points, major points of agreement, I would say almost all points of agreement. Perhaps that hasn't been conveyed," he added.

Trump on Monday issued a 5-day pause on his plans to target the Iranian power grid, citing what he deemed productive conversations with Iran. He previously issued a two-day deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which it did not do.

Iran, for its part, denied direct talks with Washington, saying that third-party countries had passed messages between the governments, but it insisted that Trump's statements were merely a ploy to calm markets and lower energy prices.

Though Trump delayed plans to attack Iranian energy infrastructure, the Israeli Air Force announced, mere moments after Trump's statements, that it had launched "another wave of strikes targeting infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime across Tehran."

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.