New Delhi, July 28 -- WASHINGTON - Iran declared Monday that the United States was "stuck and struggling" even as President Donald Trump told reporters active negotiations with Tehran were under way, oil prices fell approximately seven percent in the sharpest single-session move in weeks, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Washington to confer on what happens if diplomacy collapses and the strikes resume.

neither side calls it a ceasefire, and neither side is moving toward one in any verifiable way.

Trump added a deadline and a threat. "If they don't work out," he said, "we go back to very strong military action," and he stated that "not much time" remained for diplomacy to take hold. He also denied that American forc...