Oman spent months as the quiet peacemaker — the one country both America and Iran trusted enough to talk through.
It was Oman’s foreign minister who mediated US-Iran nuclear talks. It was Oman’s capital where American and Iranian officials met. Just hours before the bombs fell in February, Oman said a peace deal was “within reach.”
Then at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, a reporter asked Trump if he’d accept a deal letting Iran and Oman jointly manage the Strait of Hormuz.
His answer: “Oman will behave just like everybody else — or we’ll have to blow them up.”
A US ally. The country that tried hardest to stop this war. Threatened with destruction in an offhand remark.
The Strait of Hormuz carries 20% of the world’s oil supply. Since Iran closed it in March, global prices have surged nearly 65% — the biggest monthly spike ever recorded.
Even Fox News anchor John Roberts, watching live, told viewers: “Not quite sure what that was all about.”
Neither is anyone else.