Middle East crisis live: US and Iran trade strikes again, after Trump warns Tehran will ‘pay the price’ for stalled talks

Iranian state media are reporting that 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 and 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 and 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