Speaking in New York before Mr Trump was set to arrive for the UN General Assembly, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said adding the bank to the “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” list meant there were no prospects for talks.

“President Trump knowingly or unknowingly on Friday closed the door to negotiations,” Mr Zarif told a group of reporters. “Because if he cannot remove the central bank from designation, then there won’t be any normalisation of economic relations. So, he doesn’t have anything to offer to us to sit at the negotiating table.”

Mr Trump took the action in response to the attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities. Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack, but the US has dismissed those claims and blamed Iran. Mr Zarif repeated the Iran’s earlier denial of responsibility, saying Iran would have exacted a much bigger toll had it carried out the attack.

“Had Iran been involved in this attack, there would have been nothing left of that refinery and many others,” Mr Zarif said.

The Pentagon on Friday said it would send weapons and hundreds of troops to Saudi Arabia to help the kingdom protect itself. Mike Pompeo, U.S. secretary of state, on Sunday said Iran was “bloodthirsty and looking for war”. Mr Zarif hit back at his U.S. counterpart, saying he was acting like a “warmonger” instead of a diplomat.

Mr Zarif separately told CBS television that he was “not confident that we can avoid a war”. His comments came as the Trump administration continued to debate how to respond to the attack on Saudi Arabia. Mr Trump has suggested that he wanted to avoid war, while also warning Iran not to take his restraint for granted.

Relations between the U.S. and Iran have deteriorated rapidly since Mr Trump withdrew the U.S. from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions as part of a “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran.

Ahead of the attack on Saudi Arabia, Mr Trump had shown some nascent signs of flexibility, including when French president Emmanuel Macron suggested that European countries provide Iran a credit line of $15bn — equivalent to the amount of annual revenue Iran has lost by not being able to sell oil to Europe due to sanctions.

Mr Trump had repeatedly suggested that he was willing to meet Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s president who will also attend the UN general assembly, but he has shown less interest since the attack on Saudi Arabia last weekend

“Nothing is ever off the table but I have no intention of meeting with Iran,” Mr Trump said on Sunday.