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Oman offers Iran a joint management plan for Hormuz

July 28, 2026

Oman has presented Iran with a proposal for a joint regional mechanism to manage the Strait of Hormuz, funded by voluntary fees, according to a Gulf source cited by Reuters.

The Times of Israel reports that Oman has presented Iran with a proposal for a joint regional mechanism to manage the Strait of Hormuz, funded by fees paid voluntarily rather than levied, an account it attributes to a Gulf source who spoke to Reuters on Tuesday. Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and Al Jazeera carry the same proposal. Bloomberg foregrounds Trump talking up diplomacy with Iran and puts Hormuz at the center of the negotiations; the Wall Street Journal presents Iran and Oman working toward a Hormuz agreement meant to restart peace talks; Al Jazeera says Gulf governments are behind the plan. The wording differs across the four, the substance does not.

The diplomacy around the proposal is corroborated as well. The Times of Israel and the South China Morning Post both report that the United States called off its bombing campaign against Iran over the weekend, the South China Morning Post putting the length of that campaign at two weeks, and both carry Trump's Monday assessment that talks with Tehran were going well and a deal was possible, with strikes resuming if the negotiations failed. On the sequence of events, the two accounts leave no daylight between them. The Times of Israel adds a figure the others omit, that the strait carried a fifth of global energy supplies before the fighting began, which is what gives a fee mechanism its weight.

So the visible sequence is settled: the strikes stopped, Trump signalled openness to a deal with a warning attached, and Oman carried a Hormuz proposal to Tehran that Gulf states support. One caution belongs with that agreement. The five accounts track each other closely, which points to a single briefing making the rounds rather than five separate lines of reporting, so the corroboration here is broad rather than deep. What none of the five settles is what Iran does next.

Still developing

Iran's response to the Omani proposal appears in none of the five accounts, and no outlet says who would collect the voluntary fees, what they would pay for, or which Gulf governments have committed to the mechanism. The timing is open too, with no source giving a date for talks or for shipping to resume through the strait.

How settled the reporting is

Reported 59% · Contested 15% · Developing 26%

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