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Posted on 09/03/2026 3:13:47 PM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON — Oman has quietly rejected Iran’s request to jointly charge service fees on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, The Post has learned — averting a clash with President Trump, who has threatened to rain down bombs on the US ally.
A high-ranking regional official said that Muscat declined to consent to charging fees — even on a voluntary basis — for environmental and security services, contrary to a statement last week from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The terms of a proposed revenue-sharing deal had not been finalized, even by Tehran, a US official told The Post last week — indicating the IRGC jumped the gun.
Trump twice threatened to bomb Oman if it agrees to de facto tolling of the waterway, saying on Aug. 17: “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the s–t out of them.”
Trump’s reimposed naval blockade of Iran would render any toll-charging deal moot without US consent.
Although it considers itself an American ally, Oman has acted as a mediator in the region — including attempting to avert the current war by convening US-Iran nuclear talks, after a prior role arbitrating the release of Americans held by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement.
Oman brokered the May 2025 cease-fire between the US and the Houthis, who govern the north of Yemen. That deal remains in effect.
Iran has attempted to pressure Oman, which borders the strait’s southern coast, into agreeing to a post-war framework that would give Tehran enhanced authority over the international oil and gas bottleneck.
Last Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi met in Tehran and discussed the waterway.
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Oman is scared of Trump.
Let's hope he won't back down if Oman undercuts us.
Muslims have a distant and wispilly light relationship with truth and integrity. Might say "We lied to Iran but are telling the truth about lying now about the deal, and that's the truth about our lying."
As the great philosiphiser George Costanza would say....It’s not a lie if you believe it.
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