Trump says an ex-president had Iran confession. Aides deny recent contact

Twice on Monday, President Donald Trump said he’d wrangled a confession of sorts from an Oval Office predecessor who he said had expressed regret in a private conversation about not attacking Iran the way Trump has been doing for more than two weeks.But there’s just a little problem: Representatives for the four living former presidents — three Democrats and one Republican — said none have been in touch with Trump recently.Trump declined to name the former president when reporters asked who it was, saying he didn’t want to “embarrass him.”For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.The Republican president first told the story during extended remarks about the Iran war as he opened a meeting of the board of trustees of the Kennedy Center . Trump is chairman of the board and held the meeting at the White House. He repeated that Iran had been a threat to the United States for decades but said he is the only president who had the courage to do