Iran says Iranian-Omani negotiations regarding joint arrangements for managing the Strait of Hormuz have reached important stages, Al Mayadeen reports, citing sources

Iran believes this measure allows it to impose complete control over navigation and contributes to preventing accidents in the Strait of Hormuz.

Oman is still holding consultations and discussions regarding this proposal, which Iran insists on implementing.

Talk of joint Iranian-Omani management of the Strait of Hormuz sits in a long-running pattern in which Tehran periodically floats greater control over the waterway, typically framed as safety and navigation management, and typically at moments when it wants leverage or to signal capability without crossing into actual disruption. Oman is the customary intermediary here: it has historically served as the back-channel between Tehran and Western or regional counterparts, so its role as counterpart rather than co-sponsor is consistent with past form, and its continued consultations rather than endorsement is the tell that this remains an Iranian proposal, not an agreed arrangement. The relevant distinction for crude pricing is between rhetorical control claims, which have tended to add a modest and fading risk premium, and any physical interference with tanker transit, which is the event that has historically moved freight rates, insurance premia and prompt spreads materially. Sourcing via Al Mayadeen, an outlet aligned with the Iranian regional axis, is itself part of the signalling and argues for treating the 'important stages' framing as one side's characterisation. Worth watching next: whether Oman or any other littoral state confirms the talks on the record, any shift in tanker insurance pricing or transit behaviour through the strait, and whether this coincides with parallel nuclear or sanctions diplomacy, since Hormuz signalling has tended to track that calendar.