A mediating country diplomat told Axios Iranian negotiators are waiting for final approvals from the Iranian supreme national security council about the deal with Oman and the US. "We expect this approval soon", reports Axios

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Interim negotiating readouts of this kind, routed through a mediating state and a single news outlet, are a familiar feature of US-Iran diplomacy and have tended to precede both breakthroughs and breakdowns, so the informational content is thinner than the headline implies. The approval step named here, sign-off from Tehran's supreme national security council, is the standard final gate in the Iranian process and has historically been where draft understandings stall or get diluted; past episodes show the gap between 'approval expected soon' and a published, implementable text can be long and can fail entirely. The distinction that matters is between a narrow, verifiable arrangement and a broader framework, since the former prices mainly through the oil supply channel and freight and insurance premia while the latter carries sanctions and regional risk implications that reprice Gulf assets more broadly. Prior form on both sides argues for discounting unnamed sourcing until an official text or concurrent confirmations emerge, since each party has used selective leaks to shape leverage before. The follow-ons are whether Washington or Tehran confirm on the record, whether Oman formalises its role, and whether any oil-adjacent steps are specified. Until confirmation, the headline functions as sentiment input on crude risk premium rather than a tradable event.