India, June 6 -- Iran views the current US' war to be its 'first' military victory in the Islamic Republic's 47-year-old history, a senior Iranian official has said. The outcome has fundamentally altered Tehran's position in peace negotiations with the United States, he says, presenting Donald Trump with a 'test'. Track live updates on the war

"This is the first time Iran has emerged victorious in wars, while in previous wars Iran has always been defeated," Mohsen Rezaei, a military adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, told CNN.

Negotiations between the two countries remain stalled as a fragile ceasefire holds the region by a string. A final peace deal now rests on the Donald Trump administration releasing $24 billion i...