The United States and Iran on Saturday concluded their third round of "indirect" nuclear talks mediated by host Oman with both sides seeing progress in reaching a deal.

Iran and the US plan to continue their negotiations on the Iranian nuclear programme in the coming week, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said this after the third round of negotiations in Oman on Saturday.

Talks are set to start at expert-level, which will begin drawing up a framework for a potential nuclear deal, ahead of an indirect meeting between the lead negotiators. Trump, in an interview with Time magazine published on Friday,