Hormuz
Salalah postponed. Saudi asked. The maps stay in the drawer.
Oman: conditions not right. Iran: the understanding with Muscat is already done. Brent above $108.
The Rocket News · World Desk · Salalah / TehranSeptember 14, 2026 · 4 min read
The Salalah meeting is off. Gulf ministers were to sit with Iran on Monday over a temporary lane in Hormuz. Overnight, Oman said the conditions were not right. Tehran said Saudi Arabia asked that it not be held. Badr al-Busaidi: the postponement was “in the interests of consensus.” No new date. The World desk files an empty table, not a strait.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said the Iran-Oman understanding on maritime routes is already finalized. They will decide with Muscat how to announce it. Araghchi had said the maps were a lane, not a reopening. Bahrain had already skipped. Axios: Riyadh wanted amendments so the wording would not become a status quo.
The postponement was made in the interests of consensus.
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Brent has printed above $108. A hull burned at Qeshm Sunday. Diesel in America is a new record this morning. The World desk files Monday as it is: a meeting that did not sit, and a channel that is still a war.
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