Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson says that Saudi Arabia insisted that the meeting between Iran and Gulf nations in Oman not to take place; postponed to another date due to the Yemen situation

A Saudi insistence on postponement fits the established pattern in which Riyadh uses procedural control over the timing and venue of such contacts as leverage, rather than abandoning the channel outright; postponements of this kind have historically been followed by quiet rescheduling once the proximate irritant fades, though occasionally they mark a genuine rupture. The separate Iran-Oman memorandum on safe maritime routing through the Strait of Hormuz is the more durable element here: Muscat has a long track record as the region's intermediary and as co-guardian of the strait's southern shore, and bilateral routing agreements of this type have generally been framed as technical rather than political, allowing them to survive wider diplomatic freezes. For crude, the relevant channel is freight, insurance premia and the prompt time-spread rather than outright supply, since tanker traffic has continued through comparable periods of tension while war-risk rates and front-month backwardation have done the adjusting. The tells from here are whether a new date for the Gulf meeting is set, any Saudi commentary on Yemen that softens the linkage, and signs the Iran-Oman routing framework moves from paper to operational notice to mariners.