Iran's goal in the Oman talks, CNN recorded Tuesday, is temporary arrangements lasting up to three months on a route it can control. [1] That is a window. It is not a reopened strait.

Monday's briefing already kept the tables apart. The paper's Oman safe-route file treated Muscat as a neighbor corridor, not a Washington table. Tuesday adds a clock, not a signature.

Democracy Now put the same geometry in plainer terms. Ships into the Gulf would use an Iran-controlled channel. Ships out would use Oman's. Officials described a service fee split equally. [2] Al Jazeera closed its Tuesday live file on talks advancing "positively." [3] Positive is not signed. The fee is not posted. The three-month clock has not started.

Democracy Now also recorded the fee split and the inbound-outbound split as a proposed deal, not as a posted tariff. [2] No insurance circular in Tuesday's file prices that fee. No IMO circular names the three-month start.

Readers who flatten this into Trump's last-chance deal will miss the only operational claim Tehran volunteered. A temporary lane with Oman can sit beside a closed waterway. Until the joint statement exists, the window is a memo.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem