President Donald Trump has claimed that the US has held talks with Iran and that the two sides had “major points of agreement,” Reuters reports.

Trump said the conversations that took place on Sunday would continue on Monday and that if the negotiations continued productively, there would be a deal very soon.

Trump added that his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner held the talks.

He claimed Iran wants “very much to make a deal. We’d like to make a deal too. We’re going to get together today by probably phone”.

Trump did not name who in Iran the US had spoken to but said the talks had had involved a top respected leader.

Trump said the US had not heard from Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.