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How double-dealing Oman threatens Trump’s Mideast peace

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“Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we’ll have to blow them up,” President Donald Trump declared Wednesday.

An apparently shocking statement about a nation long regarded as a key US ally.

But as a tentative deal to end the war with Iran appears to be within reach, Washington has grown increasingly frustrated by the Gulf sultanate’s quiet yet significant support for the Islamic Republic.

Located directly across the Strait of Hormuz from Iran, Oman was once viewed as a trusted intermediary between the United States and the Tehran regime.

Washington considers Muscat a strategic partner and maintains access to the sultanate’s naval facilities; a longstanding US-Oman free trade agreement meant trade in US goods and services trade totaling $4.3 billion in 2024.

However, Oman is becoming a hub for Iranian sanctions evasion.

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Despite being struck by Iranian missiles and drones early in the war, Oman was the first government to congratulate the regime’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, on his appointment.

Iranian sources claim the Sultan of Oman recently signed a decree to expand trade and economic ties with Tehran, and suggested that banks in Muscat may even be firing managers who are reluctant to help........

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