{"id":562980,"date":"2026-07-28T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/562980\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:22:09","slug":"oman-tehran-close-to-agreeing-reopening-of-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/562980\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman, Tehran close to agreeing reopening of Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oman and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-903821\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> have accelerated talks to restart shipping through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-903840\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a> in what would be a short-term fix amid a slowdown in fighting between Washington and Tehran, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Oman is keeping Washington informed, although the US isn&#8217;t directly part of the talks.<\/p>\n<p>Iran and Oman created the agreement, which would allow ships to pass safely through the waterway, over the weekend, according to the WSJ.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The talks aren\u2019t meant to put a full stop to the conflict. However, mediators hope that a temporary agreement on a contentious issue would cool tempers and ultimately lead to more advanced talks, the report added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Iran and Oman are still far apart on some issues, including whether to charge transit fees, the report said, citing a US official and mediators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Oman sent a delegation to Tehran to begin talks Friday night, according to the report, which added that both sides have reported progress.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oman and Iran have accelerated talks to restart shipping through the Strait of Hormuz in what would be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[56,42,87,142930,43,2595,114994,40,38,41,39,1032,228558],"class_list":["post-562980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ceasefire","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-deal","tag-news","tag-oman","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-iran-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}