2026-09-13T16:00:29.379Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/13/politics/iran-gulf-countries-strait-of-hormuz
海湾国家外交官与伊朗官员将于周一会晤，讨论阿曼提出的一项计划，旨在恢复霍尔木兹海峡的常规油轮通行，但一位关键参与者不会出席：美国。
尽管航运量依然低迷，唐纳德·特朗普总统仍坚称，在美国军方为油轮护航的情况下，当前的航道状况目前是可以接受的。
但周一的会晤凸显出——尽管各方积极努力开发穿越海峡的替代航道——该地区国家不愿将现状视为新常态。经过数月就一项复杂的可能法律框架进行私下讨论，该框架可允许伊朗和阿曼收取费用以重新开放海峡，外交官们希望此次会晤能为达成协议创造一定势头。
“预计不会立即取得突破，但解决海峡问题是最紧迫的议题，因此我们需要从某个地方开始，”一位地区消息人士称。
消息人士称，伊朗收取通行费的可能性仍遭到广泛反对，但各方愿意考虑为引导船舶通过海峡提供自愿捐款。据三位熟悉该计划的消息人士透露，阿曼的法律框架包含为提供航行安全和环境保护收取自愿款项。
据三位知情人士透露，特朗普政府官员私下告诉海湾地区相关方，他们希望将未来美伊谈判的重点重新放在伊朗的核计划上，而非重新开放海峡。
“我不想把伊朗逼到谈判桌前，”特朗普在周二晚间的Truth Social平台上写道，此前伊朗在美军发动袭击后进行了报复。“我现在更喜欢我们的处境，我们几乎完全控制了霍尔木兹海峡，而他们的经济则完全崩溃。”
其中一位消息人士称，周一会晤的目标之一是就穿越海峡的航线地图达成一致。尽管如此，如果没有美国在场，海湾合作委员会成员国与伊朗就开放该水道达成全面计划的可能性几乎为零。但美国政府并未反对此次会晤，并称将密切监视相关讨论。
“美国正与所有地区伙伴保持密切沟通，在会议前后也将如此。伊朗无权控制霍尔木兹海峡，永远也不会，”一位美国官员表示。
另一位美国官员称，尽管美国最初低估了伊朗为回应今年早些时候美国和以色列发动的作战行动而封锁海峡的意愿——这一战略失误被德黑兰利用，通过威胁商业航运延长了战争——但美军现在认为他们已经在该水道的军事层面占据了上风。
“我们不想谈论海峡问题，这也是本届政府当前的立场——只有当你想谈论核问题时，我们才会和你谈，”这位官员说。
这位地区消息人士称，伊朗已向地区各方示意，在海峡问题得到解决后，它们愿意与美国进行核谈判，包括解除美国的封锁。因此，为重新开放水道的框架奠定基础，可能是为核谈判以及全面结束战争铺平道路的关键一步。
对油轮交通收取强制费用或通行费的可能性将是一个主要症结。冲突爆发前，该水道对商业航运开放，无需任何费用。在冲突初期，美国和地区各方曾坚决主张一点：战后水道的地位不能包含新的收费，尤其是能让伊朗在经济上获益的收费。
据多位欧洲和海湾外交官透露，如今，在全球能源价格飙升数月以及为重新开放海峡开展了密集的法律框架工作后，这种绝对化的态度已经淡化。
“我们不会接受此前不存在的东西，但可能会出台象征性的新规则，让双方都能保全面子，”一位听取了阿曼提案简报的欧洲外交官表示。
消息人士称，特朗普政府官员近几个月来一直在审阅阿曼起草的计划，但并未公开支持该框架。相反，特朗普及其政府官员继续声称，美国是唯一能够确保水道开放的国家。
“正如你们听到总统所说的，我们是世界上唯一一个能够确保对霍尔木兹海峡进行管控的国家，”副总统JD·万斯上周表示。
最近几周，由于美国军方护航为通行提供了便利，通过该海峡的油轮数量大幅增加，但商业船只在试图过境时仍不断遭到伊朗的袭击。
然而，人们质疑美国军方能否可靠地维持其大规模的舰船和资源投入，以协助船舶通过霍尔木兹海峡。
美国海军曾在单日成功护航多达40艘商业船只，但这些行动的复杂性凸显出伊朗仍对这些船只以及负责保护它们的美军人员构成实际威胁。
因此，美国外交官和地区消息人士私下承认，海湾地区为制定重新开放海峡的框架所做的努力是必要的——即便美国没有出席首次会议。
美国政府还试图淡化该水道在未来几年的重要性，财政部长斯科特·贝森特最近声称，霍尔木兹海峡将在两年内变得“如同一块毫无价值的水域”。
尽管地区各方和美国官员表示，为能源出口开发替代航线的韧性令人印象深刻，但他们认为，为海峡找到长期解决方案仍应是优先事项。消息人士称，鉴于近期胡塞武装取得军事成功，威胁到红海的通航，制定该计划的必要性更加凸显。
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Iran meeting with Gulf countries to discuss Strait of Hormuz deal without the US
2026-09-13T16:00:29.379Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/13/politics/iran-gulf-countries-strait-of-hormuz
Gulf diplomats and Iranian officials will meet Monday to discuss an Omani plan for reopening the Strait of Hormuz to regular tanker traffic, but a critical player won’t be at the table: the United States.
Despite shipping traffic remaining depressed, President Donald Trump has insisted the state of the waterway is acceptable for now with the US military escorting oil tankers.
But the meeting on Monday underscores that — despite active efforts to develop alternative corridors for passage through the strait — countries in the region are unwilling to accept the status quo as the new normal. After months of private discussions on a complicated possible legal framework to reopen the strait that could allow Iran and Oman to collect fees, diplomats are hopeful the gathering could create some momentum for a deal.
“There is no imminent breakthrough expected, but resolving the strait issue is the most pressing issue, so we need to start somewhere,” a regional source said.
The possibility of Iranian tolls is still widely rejected, but there is a willingness to consider voluntary contributions for directing passage through the strait, the sources said. The Omani legal framework includes voluntary payment for providing navigational safety and environmental protection, according to three sources familiar with the plans.
Trump administration officials have privately told those in the Gulf region that they want to refocus any future US-Iran negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program and not reopening the strait, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
“I’m not trying to force Iran to the bargaining table,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday night, after Iran retaliated following US strikes. “I like our position now much better, with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait, and their economy totally collapsing.”
One goal for the Monday meeting is to agree on maps for routes going through the strait, one of the sources said. Still, the likelihood of the Gulf Corporation Council countries and Iran getting behind a comprehensive plan to open the waterway will be virtually impossible without the US at the table. But the administration did not seek to oppose the gathering, maintaining that they will closely monitor discussions.
“The United States is in close communication with all of our regional partners and will remain so before, during, and after the meeting. Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz and never will,” said a US official.
While the US initially underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the strait in response to the US and Israel launching combat operations earlier this year — a strategic error that Tehran has capitalized on by leveraging its ability to threaten commercial shipping and prolong the war — American forces believe they have now reached a point where they, militarily, have the upper hand in the waterway, a different US official said.
“We don’t want to talk about the strait, and that is the position of the administration right now — we’re only going to talk to you if you want to talk about nuclear file,” the official said.
Iranians have signaled to regional players that they would be open to nuclear negotiations with the US when the strait issue is resolved, including lifting the US blockade, the regional source said. As a result, getting the ball rolling on a framework to reopen the waterway is likely a critical step to pave the way for nuclear negotiations and an overall end to the war.
The possibility of mandatory fees or tolls for tanker traffic will be a major sticking point. Before the conflict broke out, the waterway was open to commercial traffic without any required charges. And in the early days of the conflict, the US and regional players were adamant about one thing: The postwar status of waterway could not include new fees, especially fees that would financially benefit Iran.
Now, after months of surging global energy prices and intensive work on a legal framework to reopen the strait, the absolutist nature of this sentiment has faded, according to multiple European and Gulf diplomats.
“We won’t accept something that was not there before, but there could be symbolic new rules that allow both sides to save face from both sides,” said a European diplomat briefed on the Omani proposal.
Trump administration officials have reviewed the plans being drafted by Oman in recent months, sources said, but they have not publicly signed onto the framework. Instead, Trump and members of his administration continue to claim that the US is the only player that can facilitate an open waterway.
“We are the only country in the world that can ensure, as you heard the president say, the control over the Strait of Hormuz,” Vice President JD Vance said last week.
In recent weeks, the number of oil tankers moving through the strait has greatly increased due to US military escorts enabling passage, though commercial ships continue to be struck by Iranian attacks as they attempt to transit.
There are questions, however, around how long the US military can credibly maintain its substantial commitment of ships and resources to aid in moving ships through the Strait.
The US Navy has successfully escorted as many as 40 commercial vessels on a given day, but the complexity of those operations underscores how Iran still poses a real threat to those ships and the American military personnel tasked with protecting them.
As a result, US diplomats and regional sources privately concede that the Gulf effort to develop a framework to reopen the strait is a necessary endeavor — even if the US is not at the table for the first meeting.
The administration has also sought to downplay just how vital the waterway may be in the years to come, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently claiming the strait will become “like a worthless piece of water” within two years.
While regional players and US officials say resiliency in developing alternative routes for energy exports has been impressive, they argue that finding a long-term solution for the strait should remain a priority. The need to develop that plan is even more necessary given recent Houthi military successes that have threatened passage out of the Red Sea, the sources said.
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