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Iran, Oman near partial Hormuz shipping deal
August 7, 2026
Tehran's deputy foreign minister says a shipping arrangement with Oman is nearly settled, though it would reopen the Strait of Hormuz only partly.
CNN reports, citing Tehran's deputy foreign minister, that an arrangement with Oman covering merchant traffic in the Strait of Hormuz is nearly complete, and cbsnews.com, Reuters, The Washington Post and Al Jazeera all carry versions of the account. CNN also reports the ceiling on what the deal delivers. Pressed on whether Tehran is honoring the safe-passage clause of June's agreement, Article 5, Gharibabadi answered "No." The Washington Post reads the arrangement the same way, as something short of a full reopening.
The surrounding coverage sketches the stakes. Reuters links a climb in oil prices to uncertainty about when the waterway reopens, and Al Jazeera pairs the diplomacy with a remark from Trump that the war cannot run much longer. On a separate front, cbsnews.com reports a Houthi missile and drone assault that a military source says killed at least 58 Yemeni government soldiers on Thursday, among that war's deadliest single days in four years, and CNN carries the same account.
That a deal is near, and that Tehran itself calls it partial, is settled. How much traffic the arrangement actually restores, and on what schedule, is not.
Still developing
The framework's final terms, the timing of any reopening, and how much commercial traffic actually returns to the strait remain unresolved across sources.
How settled the reporting is
Sources
- cbsnews.com — Live Updates: Iran, Oman deal on Strait of Hormuz getting close, Tehran says
- CNN — Live updates: Iran says Hormuz deal is close but US must meet commitments before strait reopens
- Al Jazeera — Iran war live: Trump says war can’t ‘go much longer’; Hormuz deal close