WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump has said progress has been made with Iran, saying he wants to help Iran and work with it and is not seeking to change the regime, calling on Iran to leave Yemen, while Iranian leader Ali Khamenei threatened to respond to Britain's "hijacking" While an official source said that the oil tanker «MT RIAH», which carries the flag of Panama and allegedly disappeared during the crossing of the Strait of Hormuz, is not owned by the UAE and was not operated by the UAE, does not have any crew on the Emirati, did not send any request for distress "We are currently closely monitoring the situation with our international partners."

In detail, Trump said at a cabinet meeting at the White House that "Washington wants Iran to get out of Yemen."

"We want to work with it, not change the regime," he said.

Trump did not elaborate on progress, but US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed at the meeting that Iran had said it was ready to negotiate its missile program.

On the other hand, Trump considered that the situation of Turkey is very complex and that he speaks with, in reference to the acquisition of Ankara's defense system Russian «S 400» controversial.

"Turkey has asked to buy more than 100 F-35s, but it can not buy more because it now has a missile system from Russia," he said, referring to his predecessor, Barack Obama, who did not sell the Patriot system to Ankara.

This comes at a time when the First Vice President of Iran, Ishaq Jahangiri, that the return of Tehran to the nuclear agreement and the implementation of its commitments will be easy and quickly, if US sanctions on its oil exports stopped.

The Iranian news agency ISNA quoted Jahangiri as calling on the Europeans to call on the United States to lift sanctions on Iran instead of demanding Tehran return to the nuclear deal.

"If we decide, it will only take a few hours to complete all our commitments, but in the current situation, the Europeans should keep their promises," he said.

In the same context, threatened Iranian guide Ali Khamenei, to respond to the "hijacking" of Britain's oil tanker off the coast of Gibraltar.

"Their slag has become exposed to everyone," he said. "They hijacked our oil tanker with maritime piracy and seek to legalize it. The Iranians will not let this pass without a response, and they will respond to it at the right time and place. "

On the other hand, British Prime Minister Theresa Mai's spokesman said yesterday that any escalation of tension in the Gulf region between Western countries and Iran is not in the interest of anyone.

"Our position has always been consistent: the escalation in the Gulf is not in anyone's interest, and we have repeatedly assured the Iranians," the spokesman said.

Asked about reports that Britain would send a third warship and a supply ship to the Gulf, the spokesman said: "We have a permanent presence in the region."

This comes at a time when a correspondent for the newspaper «British Times» that Britain will send a third warship and a supply ship to the Gulf, but that step has nothing to do with the Iranian crisis.

"The frigate was of the 23rd model to be deployed in September, and the ship Wave Knight will arrive next month," reporter Lucy Fisher told Reuters.

The authorities in Gibraltar were detained in cooperation with elements of the British Royal Navy giant tanker «Grace 1» last week on suspicion of carrying crude oil to the Syrian refinery Banias, in violation of the sanctions imposed by the European Union on Syria.

The captain of the tanker and three others were temporarily detained, but later released.

The Gibraltar Supreme Court ordered the carrier not to be allowed to sail again until July 21 at least.

There have been signs of a breakthrough over the past few days after British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt offered to launch the ship on condition that Iran would not send its cargo to Syria.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif said Tehran was seeking to resolve the issue diplomatically.

Gibraltar is a British province located on the southern tip of Spain, and Madrid also claims sovereignty over it.

In Jerusalem, an Israeli NGO said yesterday it would apply to the Supreme Court of Gibraltar for the sale of a captured Iranian oil tanker, seeking to compensate the parents of a girl who accuses Israel of a Hamas militant of killing her in an attack.

Shorat Hadin, which is fighting legal battles around the world against what it calls Israel's enemies, says it won a $ 178.5 million US court order against Iran and Syria in 2017 over the death of an American infant in an attack in occupied Jerusalem.

Pompeo:

• Iran is ready to negotiate its missile program.