{"id":53234,"date":"2026-08-18T08:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=53234"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:34:19","slug":"trump-threatens-to-bomb-us-ally-oman-if-it-gets-in-the-way-over-iran-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/trump-threatens-to-bomb-us-ally-oman-if-it-gets-in-the-way-over-iran-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to bomb US ally Oman if it ‘gets in the way’ over Iran deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BBC:<\/strong> President Donald Trump has threatened to bomb Oman – a US ally – if it “gets in the way” of his administration’s own talks with Iran, Fox News reports.<\/p>\n

The US and Oman have been negotiating separately with Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that is vital to the global economy. It has been largely closed for nearly six months during the US-Iran war.<\/p>\n

A reporter for Fox said the US president made the threat to Oman while using an expletive during a phone interview.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, Iranian officials said they were close to finalising a deal with Oman. Meanwhile, the future of talks between the US and Iran is unclear as a 60-day Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two sides is expiring.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump was asked by BBC News if he was seeking an extension to the MoU, to which he replied: “No.”<\/p>\n

Since the US and Israel attacked Iran in February, Tehran has largely blocked the Strait of Hormuz – through which about a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas usually passes. Reopening it has been a key point of discussion.<\/p>\n

Oman borders the southern side of the Strait and says it is a neutral country in this conflict. However it has suffered a number of strikes from Iran and is now playing a key role in negotiating with Tehran to reopen the waterway.<\/p>\n

Washington has pursued its own efforts to secure the reopening. Fox reporter Trey Yingst quoted Trump as saying: “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the shit out of them.”<\/p>\n

It is not clear what Trump thinks would constitute getting in the way of his ambitions for a deal.<\/p>\n

During the same interview with Fox, Trump also said the US had a direct backchannel with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is a major military, economic and political force in Iran.\u00a0An IRGC spokesman denied Trump’s claim.<\/p>\n

A spokesman told semi-official Iranian news agency Tasnim News: “There are no talks taking place between IRGC officials and the Americans, and this lie by Trump is merely fantasies caused by the delusions and nightmares he has suffered as a result of defeat and desperation in the war.”<\/p>\n

Trump made his threat to Oman a few hours after Iran had said the two countries had reached an agreement for ships to travel through the Strait.<\/p>\n

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei told reporters “an understanding has been reached regarding the map of the transit route”.<\/p>\n

He added that both sides would finalise the details before issuing a joint statement. Oman has previously described these talks as positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BBC: President Donald Trump has threatened to bomb Oman – a US ally – if it “gets in the way” of his administration’s own talks with Iran, Fox News reports. The US and Oman have been negotiating separately with Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that is vital to the global economy. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53237,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53234\/revisions\/53237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}