Middle East crisis live: Trump says strait of Hormuz could be open in ‘two or three days’ if Iran peace deal is reached

US president says negotiations are in ‘final throes’ and there were no ‘sticking points’ to prevent an agreement being reached Israel and Iran step back from renewed conflict after Trump calls for halt Complex relationship between Trump and Netanyahu continues to undermine Middle East ceasefire In a phone interview with the BBC, Donald Trump said he had stressed the need “to use a lot of common sense” when he spoke to Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, who he has reportedly grown increasingly exasperated with during the war. “All I did is say, ‘we have to use sense’. We’re very close to signing a very powerful deal, a very good deal,” Trump said of the conversation.