A US official familiar with the negotiations confirmed the temporary route was discussed and said it would be limited to a period of 60 days, ABC reports

• During the 60 days, negotiators would work on a long-term deal to fully open the strait and continue hashing out a nuclear deal.
• This arrangement would seemingly formalize Iranian control of the waterway.  
• The official cautioned that nothing is final until it is publicly announced.  
• Omani officials have proposed a Gulf-backed plan allowing Iran to receive voluntary contributions modeled after Asia's Strait of Malacca, to cover costs for security and environmental protection. 
• A source familiar with the proposal said voluntary payments could be on the table in the interim agreement.
• Another U.S. official said the Trump administration wants total freedom of commercial navigation through the waterway without Iranian tolls or any arrangement requiring ships to obtain Tehran’s approval before transiting the strait.  

Interim arrangements around contested chokepoints follow a familiar sequence: crude initially fades the risk premium on any sign of a structured pause, and shipping and insurance costs ease on the prospect of resumed transit, before the market asks whether the framework is durable or merely defers the confrontation. Episodes of this kind have historically traded on the gap between the two sides' stated end-states, and here the divergence is explicit, with one side proposing a formalised toll and control regime and the other insisting on unconditional freedom of navigation. That gap is where the story sits, not in the 60-day window itself, which functions as a rolling deadline prone to extension or abrupt collapse in comparable negotiations. The tells are whether tanker traffic and war-risk premiums through the strait actually normalise, and whether crude term structure loosens in the front contracts that carry the disruption premium. Second-order transmission runs through regional producers' export logistics and, on the FX side, the established haven pattern in JPY and USD when chokepoint risk reasserts. Sourcing is single-witness via ABC, and prior form on these leak-driven reports is that positions shift between the anonymous official and any formal announcement, so the market typically prices the direction of travel rather than the detail.