{"id":577940,"date":"2026-08-07T21:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/577940\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:32:13","slug":"us-expects-a-hormuz-deal-soon-will-lift-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/577940\/","title":{"rendered":"US expects a Hormuz deal &#8216;soon,&#8217; will lift blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s Supreme National Security Council is expected to approve a deal shortly with the US and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/oman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oman<\/a> to open and oversee the Strait of Hormuz together with Oman, Axios reported Friday evening, citing a diplomat from a mediating country.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday evening, a US official corroborated that report, telling Reuters that there has been progress in the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is progress between Oman and Iran on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-904830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Strait<\/a>, and we expect a deal soon,&#8221; the official said. &#8220;Once the deal is announced to restore commercial shipping without impediments, the United States will lift the blockade of Iranian ports.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;As always, US actions will continue to be performance-based and tied to Iran\u2019s implementation of its commitments,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that progress had been made in talks and that the US was &#8220;hoping&#8221; for an agreement, after which Axios reported that the White House wanted a deal announced as early as Wednesday, citing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-904872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US<\/a> official.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Supreme National Security Council is expected to approve a deal shortly with the US and Oman to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,42,87,91,1486,43,157282,157283,114994,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-577940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-israel-war","tag-memorandum-of-understanding","tag-news","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-operation-roaring-lion","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577940","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=577940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}