US-Iran Confrontation: US President Donald Trump has threatened military action against Oman if it interferes with Washington’s efforts to reach an agreement with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz.
“If Oman gets in the way, we will bomb the shit out of them,” he said.
Fox News reported that Trump also said the United States has made progress towards its goal of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. The president claimed the United States is communicating with the IRGC through a secret channel and suggested that there is no immediate deadline for ending the conflict. “They are good poker players, but they are in very bad shape. I have no time schedule.
The threat came as Iran and Oman said they were close to finalising an agreement on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said the two sides have reached an understanding on a map for transit routes and are working on the remaining details before issuing a joint statement. Baghaei said the two countries have reached an understanding over the transit route. “There has been an agreement regarding the map of the transit route,” he told reporters in Tehran. He said the two sides would finalise the details before announcing a joint statement. In the same Fox News interview, Trump said the United States has a direct backchannel to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). “They should put up the white flag of surrender,” he said. I am in no hurry,” he said. The official said Iran could escalate the conflict if the interim agreement was not implemented and diplomacy failed.
