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Is Cuba busy negotiating with Tehran about the use of their territory ahead of Iran's invasion of the USA?
USA: Has shot down Iranian drone. The drone was moving toward the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln but was shot down before it reached the ship.
Earlier this year, US President Donald Trump ordered the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and several other warships to the waters off Iran's coast. Trump has issued several threats against Iran since a wave of protests broke out in the country on December 28. Thousands of Iranian demonstrators have been killed since then.
The US president has said that Iran must do two things to avoid an American attack. "Number one, no nuclear weapons. Two, stop killing demonstrators," he says, according to BBC. Read the article on SVT Nyheter.
Cuba denies dialogue with the USA. Cuba rejects reports that the country is in talks with the USA. President Donald Trump has previously said that Washington initiated negotiations with Cuba's leadership without specifying what they were about. Watch the segment on TV4 News.