India, June 12 -- US President Donald Trump has claimed that the United States has effectively ended its ongoing conflict with Iran, although Tehran has yet to confirm any such breakthrough.

"We just made a great settlement of the war with Iran," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, according to the BBC.

In a separate post on Truth Social, Trump announced that planned US military action against Iran had been called off.

"Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening," he wrote.

Trump further said tha...