Trump spruiks imminent deal as uncertainty reigns

Should be done, should be done pretty quickly, they want it every but as much as everybody else wants it."He says maritime traffic will resume once the agreement is formally signed.Just hours before announcing the breakthrough, the US president had threatened to strike Iran "very hard" and suggested the United States could take control of Kharg Island, the terminal that handles most of Iran's oil exports.Iran's response was swift.Officials in Tehran warned that any American attack would trigger a severe retaliation.Ebrahim Azizi, who heads the Iranian Parliament's National Security Commission, accused Mr Trump of repeatedly making threats and said Iran's military was ready to respond."The delusional President of the United States .. I feel attacking a commercial vessel is really against humanity."The deaths come just days before India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is expected to meet President Trump on the sidelines of the G-7 summit.The rapid swings between threats and diplomacy have left many observers struggling to predict what comes next.Meanwhile, at the United Nations, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning that the Middle East remains dangerously close to a much wider war.His deputy spokesperson, Farhan Haq, says recent attacks and increasingly aggressive rhetoric risk undoing months of efforts to contain the fighting.Mr Haq says the Secretary-General fears the region could soon return to full-scale conflict."The Secretary General warned the Security Council this morning that the Middle East is being pulled deeper into crisis and the consequences reach far beyond the region