{"id":254139,"date":"2026-08-18T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/254139\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:08:09","slug":"trump-again-threatens-to-bomb-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/254139\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Again Threatens to Bomb Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf Oman gets in the way, we\u2019ll bomb the sh-t out of them,\u201d Trump told<\/a> Fox News reporter Trey Yingst on Monday.<\/p>\n

Trump later told reporters, \u201cI don\u2019t think they [Oman] behaved very well, but we\u2019d handle them very easily, just like we do other things.\u201d It\u2019s unclear what exactly Oman has done to upset the U.S. President. TIME has reached out to the White House for comment.<\/p>\n

Tehran has said the Strait\u2019s administration should remain strictly between the two coastal states. Iran also previously proposed collecting fees for passage through the waterway, while Oman proposed a system with voluntary fees<\/a> in late July.<\/p>\n

U.S.-Iran diplomacy meanwhile appears tenuous<\/a>, with Iranian officials denying any direct talks<\/a> and contradicting Trump\u2019s claims that Iran is eager to make a deal. The 60-day deadline for the U.S. and Iran to negotiate a comprehensive peace agreement to end the war expired Monday without a deal. The two countries signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on June 17, which included the lifting of the U.S. naval blockade on Iran and toll-free passage through the Strait of Hormuz. The MOU stated that Iran would discuss with Oman the future administration of the waterway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIf Oman gets in the way, we\u2019ll bomb the sh-t out of them,\u201d Trump told Fox News reporter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[177,989,34,310,355],"class_list":["post-254139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-conflict","tag-diplomacy","tag-iran","tag-news-desk","tag-overnight"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117115965054671575","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}