Top updates: Trump says he asked China’s Xi Jinping not to supply weapons to Iran

United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday told Fox Business that he has asked his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping not to provide weapons to Iran.

Xi told him that Beijing was not supplying ammunition to Tehran, Trump claimed in an interview broadcast on Wednesday.

After the peace talks with Iran collapsed on Sunday, Trump had threatened countries with a 50% tariff if they ​supplied weapons to Iran.

Here are more top updates from the conflict in West Asia:

• Trump claimed on Tuesday that the war with Iran was “close to over” and that Tehran wanted to make a deal with the US “very badly”. “I think it’s close to over, yeah,” Trump said in an interview to Fox News. “I view it as very close to over.”
• The US and Iran had begun peace talks in Islamabad on April 11, but the negotiations ended the next morning without an agreement to end the war in West Asia. However, Trump told The New York Post on Tuesday that additional talks with Iran “could be happening over the next two days” in Islamabad.
• The US president did not say who will represent the country in the possible second round, but said that he would not take part. Pakistan had proposed to host a second round of talks in Islamabad before the two-week ceasefire between Washington and Tehran ends...

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