The Jerusalem Post reports: “Iran believes that coming to an agreement that meets the demands put forth by the US would be more costly than war, and consequently, the Islamic Republic has prepared for a military confrontation, informed sources in Tehran told the Hezbollah-aligned Al-Akhbar on Thursday.

Separately on Thursday, the semi-official Iranian Tasnim News Agency reported that ‘one thousand strategic drones’ had entered the country’s military arsenal that day.

A source in Iran’s Foreign Ministry further asserted to Al-Akhbar that the US’s claims that Iran had reached out to Washington in order to come to an agreement were untrue…”