Reports that the US and Israel will carry out a military strike on Iran have been denied by US President Donald Trump, saying he wants to make a deal with Tehran.

“I want Iran to be a great and successful country, but also a country that cannot have a nuclear weapons. Reports that the United States, in cooperation with Israel, is going to blow up Iran are absolute exaggerations,” Trump wrote on his social platform Truth Social.

“I would much prefer a revised nuclear peace agreement that lets Iran develop and prosper peacefully,” he wrote, adding: “We should start working on it immediately and have a big celebration in the Middle East when it is signed and completed. God bless the Middle East!”

Yesterday, Trump resumed his “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran, including efforts to zero its oil exports in order to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapons.

The move restores the tough US policy toward Iran that Trump implemented throughout his first term. Iran said earlier today that the policy “will turn into another failure.”