US President Donald Trump says that his special envoy Steve Witkoff is “doing very well” in negotiations with Iran, though he indicates that a deal is not his preferred outcome, Anadolu reports.

“He’s working on the Iran deal and doing very well. I think the deal isn’t really something that I want to do, but they’re willing to offer us anything to stop,” Trump tells supporters at a campaign rally in San Antonio, Texas, adding that Tehran “will never have a nuclear weapon”.

Trump describes Witkoff as “a great negotiator” who has “done some phenomenal things,” citing the ceasefire deal in Gaza, and says that he expects the war with Iran to end soon.

“That war ends — it’s going to be very soon. It’s got to be very soon,” he says, describing Iran as “a failed nation.”