00:00US President Donald Trump appears to warn Oman against supporting Iran over any move to reopen or alter control of
00:08the Strait of Hormuz.
00:09Trump says Oman must behave, or he will, in his own words, blow them up, adding that the strategic waterway
00:17must remain open to all nations.
00:20The Strait is going to be open to everybody.
00:22And who will control that?
00:24It's international waters.
00:25Nobody is going to control it.
00:27We're going to watch over it. We'll watch over it, but nobody's going to control it.
00:30That's part of the negotiation that we have.
00:32They would like to control it. Nobody's going to control it.
00:35It's international waters, and Oman will behave just like everybody else, so we'll have to blow them up.
00:41They understand that. They'll be fine.
00:43Oman remains a key American ally in the Gulf and has continued efforts to mediate tensions linked to the wider
00:49Middle East conflict.
00:50Iran has signaled possible changes to how the Strait of Hormuz is controlled, a route that normally carries around one
00:57-fifth of the global oil supplies.
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