Donald Trump said the strait of Hormuz will open “as soon as we sign” the documents of the “great settlement” reached with Iran.
“The whole Middle East is happy,” Trump said.
Iranian state media are reporting. explosion heard in the south of the country a short while ago were related to a confrontation with a “violating vessel” attempting to pass through the strait of Hormuz.
Citing the Revolutionary Guard, state media said the vessel was an oil tanker. was forced to comply with a “traffic prohibition law” in the strait after a warning from the Guards.
Iranian officials said earlier that a tanker was stopped from entering the strait. claiming it did not have “coordination” to pass.
In Donald Trump ’s announcement that an agreement with Iran was imminent. could be signed “maybe over the weekend in Europe”, he said the Hormuz strait would open “as soon as we sign” the documents of the “great settlement”.
“The whole Middle East is happy,” Trump said
As Donald Trump has declared a deal with Iran is set to be signed “very soon”. Iran’s Tasnim news agency is saying he has announced that a deal is imminent 38 times over the previous two months – though one didn’t eventuate.
“Until Iran announces the matter of a potential understanding. any news from Trump on this subject should be regarded the same as his previous messaging,” the semi-official agency said, cited by AFP.
As mentioned. Iran said it had not reached a final decision on a deal with Washington after Trump announced a “great settlement” to end the war.
“So far. Iran has not reached a final conclusion on the agreement,” foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said, after Trump said he expected a deal to be signed in Europe in the coming days.
Iranian media is saying the country’s forces have not allowed a “violating tanker” to enter the strait of Hormuz without coordinating with Tehran.
The report from the Fars news agency – closely linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard – came shortly after the sound of explosions were reportedly heard near the port city of Bandar Abbas.
Hours earlier Donald Trump claimed a “great settlement” has been reached with Iran. while Tehran later said a final decision on an agreement had not yet been made.
Donald Trump announced that he was cancelling the third day of airstrikes. bombings that he had earlier said would happen because “discussions” with Iran “have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved”. This agreement will be signed “soon, very soon, maybe over the weekend in Europe” according to Trump, who said “(d)iscussions. final points have been, in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties involved”, which includes “the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, and others”.
Israel, however, said it was “ not a party to” what the prime minister’s office described as an emerging memorandum of understanding between the US. Iran. However, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had spoken to Trump, Netanyahu’s office said,. the final agreement at the conclusion of negotiations will include the removal of enriched material, the dismantling of enrichment infrastructure, limits on missile production, and the cessation of Iran’s support for its terrorist proxies in the region.
Though Trump said that Iranian supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei had approved the agreement. a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry told the state-run IRNA that Iran has not yet made a final decision. Iran will not compromise on its “red lines” in negotiations. any reports regarding the signing of the agreement was speculative as nothing has been finalised, Esmaeil Baghaei said Thursday. He added that a large part of the text had been finalised. the US repeatedly changed its positions during the talks.
The strait of Hormuz will open “as soon as we sign” the documents of the “great settlement” reached with Iran. Trump said. “The whole Middle East is happy,” Trump said.
Trump had earlier posted on social media that the US would seize Iran’s Kharg island “some point in the not too distant future”,. he later said a military operation to take Kharg would be off the table “if we sign this agreement”.
The price of oil had risen after Trump threatened a ‘very hard’ attack on Iran –. it fell hours later after he announced he was canceling the strikes. Brent futures fell $3.37. or 3.6%, to $89.73 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell $3.20, or 3.6%, to $86.83 a barrel, according to the Associated Press.
A strike wounded 10 staff members of a hospital in the Lebanese city of Tyre on Thursday. the facility’s director told AFP, as Israeli raids continue in the country’s south. All three of the historic city’s hospitals have been hit since the start of the latest war between Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. Israel in early March.
UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said on Thursday that all parties must work towards a diplomatic settlement that fully respects the territorial integrity, sovereignty. political independence of Lebanon. In a post on X, Guterres added that there must be a comprehensive ceasefire. said he fully supports a monopoly on weapons by the Lebanese government.
The Kuwaiti armed forces said it has responded to 24 Iranian drones in its airspace in the past two days. “The Iranian aggression resulted in limited material damage without any human casualties,” the army said in a statement on social media.
The US has confirmed that it carried out a strike on Guinea-Bissau-flagged vessel M/T Jalveer. which according to Central Command (Centcom) was violating the blockade. Centcom alleged that the ship was attempting to transport Iranian oil through the Gulf of Oman.
The Indian government has voiced a “strong protest” after three Indian seafarers were killed in US military strikes against oil tankers travelling through the strait of Hormuz. The three men who died were named as Patnala Suresh, a chief engineer, Aditya Sharma, a deck cadet,. Shivanand Chaurashiya, a fitter. Sarbananda Sonowal, India’s shipping and ports minister, called it a “profound loss to our maritime family”.
Here is video of Donald Trump talking about the “great settlement” that the US reached with Iran:
A spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry told the state-run IRNA that Iran has not yet made a final decision on an agreement with the US. Reuters reports.
Esmaeil Baghaei said Thursday that Iran will not compromise on its “red lines” in negotiations.
Though Donald Trump told reporters that an agreement signing could take place as early as the weekend. will likely be in Europe, Baghaei said any reports regarding the signing of the agreement was speculative as nothing has been finalised.
A large part of the text had been finalised, Baghaei said,. the US repeatedly changed its positions during the talks.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken with Donald Trump about the “emerging” memorandum of understanding with Iran. the Israeli prime minister’s office posted on X on Thursday.
While Israel “ is not a party to the memorandum of understanding, the Prime Minister expressed his appreciation for President Trump’s commitment that the final agreement at the conclusion of negotiations will include the removal of enriched material, the dismantling of enrichment infrastructure, limits on missile production,. the cessation of Iran’s support for its terrorist proxies in the region ”, the statement reads.
Earlier today. Donald Trump posted on social media that the US would take Iran’s Kharg island “some point in the not too distant future”.
But after announcing that he was canceling tonight’s strikes because of the “great settlement” reached with Iran. he said a military operation to take Kharg would be off the table “if we sign this agreement”.
“They weren’t so thrilled when they heard that that’s what I wanted done,” he said. without specifiying who he meant by “they”.
When asked. Donald Trump maintained that he was confident that “it’ll be soon, maybe this weekend” that the Iran agreement will be signed.
He said it was his understanding that the Iranian supreme leader – Mojtaba Khamenei. who became supreme leader after his father, Ali Khamenei, was killed in an airstrike at the end of February – has approved the deal.
When asked again why he was so convinced that a deal has been reached this time – he has made this claim dozens of times over the past few weeks – he said it was. “they’ve taken a pounding”.
“They’ve taken a pounding like very few people can take. they want to make a deal a lot more than I do,” Trump said.
He again said the agreement was “a great deal for the United States. for the Middle East ” and ultimately, Iran will “in no way, shape or form have a nuclear weapon ”.
Donald Trump said he will likely not attend the signing of the Iran agreement. which he said will be signed “soon, very soon, maybe over the weekend in Europe ”.
However, vice president JD Vance “will be there”, Trump said.
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