US president says war on Iran 'very close to over'

US President Donald Trump said the war on Iran could be nearing its end, telling Fox News that he sees the conflict as “very close to over”.

“I think it’s close to over, yeah,” Trump said in a clip aired by the broadcaster. “We’ll see what happens. I think they want to make a deal very badly," he said. 

He added that without US military action, Iran would have obtained a nuclear weapon, saying, “If they had a nuclear weapon, you would be calling everybody over there sir. And you don’t want to do that.”

However, the International Atomic Energy Agency has previously said it found no evidence that Iran was building a nuclear weapon.