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US President Donald Trump says he called off air strikes on Iran because a peace deal is close to being agreed on and a time and place of the signing are “to be announced shortly”.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry says “the main part of the text was almost finalised but the Americans were being greedy and raising new requests”.