Iran is in discussions with Oman over a temporary safe route through the Strait of Hormuz. That is the table Tehran will admit on Monday. It is not a table with Washington. [1]

Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Iran is not holding talks with the United States. The live file is a round-trip corridor with Muscat, one temporary lane until a permanent route is set. [1]

Baghaei added that an Oman agreement is not enough to reopen the strait. The waterway stays closed, in Tehran's telling, while US "aggression" continues. [1]

Iran International recorded the same denial and a further limit. Baghaei said Iran has no plan to receive a US delegation or send one in the coming days. The corridor under discussion is a single entry-and-exit lane, not two or three routes. [2]

The paper's earlier Hormuz coverage treated corridor talk as governance, not surrender. Monday's briefing keeps that line. A safe-route memo with Oman can exist beside a closed strait. Readers who flatten it into "talks with America" will miss the only operational fact Tehran volunteered.

Baghaei also blamed the closure on US-Israeli military action, not on a quarrel with Muscat. That attribution matters. Oman is a neighbor on the far bank, not a substitute for Washington.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem