Trump's rejection of the Iran-Oman Strait plan has acquired an enforcement office.

The paper's Thursday account of Trump rejecting the Strait plan in public treated the threat as incomplete without administration. Friday supplies the next piece: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warning Oman and partners away from facilitating the toll architecture.

The Hill reports that Bessent's warning followed Trump's threat language and Treasury's move against Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority. [1] Treasury's own release designated the authority as an IRGC-linked mechanism for extracting payments, vessel information, and cooperation from ships moving through Hormuz. [2]

BBC's ceasefire coverage still describes diplomacy moving toward possible open passage. [3] That is the divergence. Diplomats are selling a passage framework while Treasury is warning that the old passage apparatus may be a sanctions trap. Oman now needs either a denial, a repair statement, or a routing document. Rhetoric alone no longer carries the story.

The practical reader question is simple: if a shipowner is told passage is opening, but Treasury says the entity administering passage is sanctioned, whose paper controls the voyage? That is why the Oman warning deserves a brief. It converts Trump's threat into compliance risk.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem