Now, Oman. With the ceasefire with Iran about to expire, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has directly targeted that country this Monday if it does not agree to accept his demands. “If it stands in our way, we will bomb them mercilessly,” he announced in an interview on his favorite television channel, Fox News.
The Republican’s words come just ten days after Omani and Iranian authorities announced they were very close to reaching an agreement to manage traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, which has been reduced for almost half a year and is under a double blockade: from Tehran and also from Washington. Oman thus goes from being a country pointed out as a possible venue for negotiations between both parties — a role that, ultimately, has been played by Pakistan — to becoming a target of threats from the White House.
In the interview, Trump reiterated that his number one goal in the region remains that the Iranian regime does not obtain the nuclear bomb. This Monday marks 60 days since a ceasefire agreement that today seems more distant than ever.
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