Oman floats a two-corridor Hormuz plan as Muscat talks end

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met his Omani counterpart in Muscat and left with an Omani proposal to run the Strait of Hormuz through two lanes: a southern corridor in Omani waters open to free navigation under pre-war rules, and a northern corridor in Iranian waters where ships would need Iran's prior approval but pay no toll. The talks broke up without a breakthrough and short of the U.S. demand for a public Iranian declaration that the strait is fully open.

Why this matters. The two-corridor idea is the first concrete formula to square Iran's insistence on control with Washington's open-strait demand, but Iran taking it home without agreeing shows the core sovereignty fight over Hormuz is still unresolved.