Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has ruled out meeting Donald Trump until the US lifts sanctions on the Islamic republic, saying he would not take part in a photo opportunity.

Mr Rouhani made the comments on Tuesday in a speech on state television, a day after French president Emmanuel Macron suggested at the  G7 summit that he could  broker a meeting between the Iranian and US leaders. Mr Trump had said at the Biarritz summit that he would agree to meet Iran’s president “if the circumstances were correct”.

But Iran, which accuses the Trump administration of waging an economic war against the country, played down the prospect of negotiations. Mr Rouhani said there would be no “positive development” until the US lifted its sanctions on Tehran.