US President Donald Trump has threatened to bomb Oman if the Gulf country “gets in the way” of Washington’s efforts to strike a peace deal with Iran, FT reports.
Fox News reported on Monday that the president had delivered the threat in response to questions from a reporter, as tensions between Washington and Tehran simmer, with both sides aiming to control the vital Strait of Hormuz waterway.
Trey Yingst, a Fox reporter, said: “I asked the president about . . . parallel talks that are taking place between Iran and Oman about control of the Strait of Hormuz.”
He said that Trump responded: “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the s*** out of them.”
Iranian diplomats have been in negotiations with Oman in recent weeks over a provisional arrangement to manage shipping through the strait.
In a post on his Truth Social network on Monday, Trump said: “The number one Goal is, and always will be, that Iran cannot have, in any way, shape, or form, a Nuclear Weapon.”
