Top Iranian official: Trump and Iran’s supreme leader will not meet

And, despite that Pakistan-mediated ceasefire announced on April 8, flare-ups since then have prompted fears that renewed war – rather than peace – could be next.

Trump was taking questions from reporters in the Oval Office after making an announcement about coal.

The US and Israel carried out strikes on several key Iranian sites on February 28, in which the former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed.

An adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader rejects the current peace draft in talks with the US, citing unresolved ambiguities.