President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday night that "authorities" are investigating CNN for allegedly publishing a "false" statement from the Iranian regime.
Trump announced that Iran and the U.S. had agreed to a two-week ceasefire agreement in a Truth Social post on Tuesday. CNN reported that Iran had claimed it achieved a "great victory" in the conflict, and that the country had forced Trump to relent and lift all sanctions against Iran.
Trump lashed out at CNN in a new Truth Social post and claimed that "authorities" had opened an investigation into the outlet for publishing the remarks.
"The alleged Statement put out by CNN World News is a FRAUD, as CNN well knows," Trump wrote. "The false Statement was linked to a Fake News site (from Nigeria) and, of course, immediately picked up by CNN, and blared out as a “legitimate” headline. The Official Statement by Iran was just released, and posted on TRUTH, below."
"Authorities are looking to determine whether or not a crime was committed on the issuance of the Fake CNN World Statement, or was it a sick rogue player?" he added. "CNN is being ordered to immediately withdraw this Statement with full apologies for their, as usual, terrible 'reporting.' Results of the investigation will be announced in the near future."
A spokesperson for CNN disputed Trump's allegations.
"The statement in question was obtained by CNN from Iranian officials and reported on multiple Iranian state media outlets," the spokesperson said. "We received the statement from specific official Iranian spokespeople who are known to us."