Nigeria, May 25 -- President Donald Trump has "mandatorily requested" that Arab countries sign the Abraham Accords as part of US efforts to reach a deal with Iran.

The Abraham Accords are a series of agreements brokered by the US that normalised relations between Israel and some Arab countries.

Mr Trump, in a Monday post on Truth Social, linked the Abraham Accords to the Iran negotiation and publicly confirmed that he had asked the presidents of Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain to normalise relations with Israel during a conference call last Saturday.

He also implied that Arab states signing the Abraham Accords could be a prerequisite for a US peace deal with Iran, declaring that it would be ei...