Oman had proposed that shipping companies pay voluntary fees to a joint authority, a plan that would have ended Tehran’s exclusive control over the waterway. Persian Gulf states supported the proposal.
But an unnamed Iranian official told Reuters the plan was dead on arrival.
“The official, who said the
“He said Iran respected Oman, which it considered a valuable neighbor and mediator, but that a 50/50 arrangement under which the two countries shared equal control would not serve Iran's interests.”
On July 27, after U.S. President Donald Trump halted
a two-week campaign of planned strikes on Iran, Tehran said it still controls
the Strait of Hormuz and was not seeking to resume peace talks with the United
States. On July 24, Axios reported that after nearly two weeks of daily
attacks, Trump had ordered U.S. forces to stop bombing Iran.