At the same time, Oman’s foreign minister said he was holding talks on how to open the strait of Hormuz. Iran’s foreign ministry initially insisted no talks were held and that Trump had simply retreated in the face of the scale of the economic and energy crisis he had singlehandedly created. Speculation grew that foreign minister and chief nuclear negotiator Araghchi had been sidelined in a power struggle that had yet to be revealed. Most of these proposals had already been agreed in the talks held in Geneva or on their sidelines. Nothing is certain, except if talks fail, Trump told reporters: “We’ll just keep bombing our little hearts out.”

Source: The Guardian March 24, 2026 01:59 UTC