Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi has called for an extension to the ceasefire to allow for talks between the US and Iran to continue.
Donald Trump announced late on Tuesday night that a ceasefire would take place for two weeks, conditional upon the Strait of Hormuz being opened immediately.
Oman had been mediating nuclear talks between both countries before conflict broke out on 28 February.
Albusaidi said earlier this afternoon in a post on X that when he had met US Vice President JD Vance “just hours before the war began, I formed an impression that both he and the President had a genuine and strong preference to avoid the entanglements of war.”
“So I urge that the ceasefire be extended and talks continue. Success may require everyone to make painful concessions, but this is nothing as compared to the pain of failure and war,” he says.