Trump has also asserted that Iran “will never have a nuclear weapon. They’ve agreed to that”, reports Reuters.

He claimed Iran had initiated contact because it did not want the US to strike its energy infrastructure.

“I think this is something that’s going to happen, and why wouldn’t it happen?” referring to a deal with Iran.

“So tomorrow morning, sometime their time, we were expected to blow up their largest electric generating plant that cost over $10 billion to build. It’s a very good one ….Why would they want that. So they called, I didn’t call. They called,” he reiterated.

“They want to make a deal, and we are very willing to make a deal.”

Trump said the Strait of Hormuz would be open very soon “if this works”.

“The price of oil will drop like a rock as soon as the deal is done,” he said.