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Iran and Oman agree on coordinates of route through strait of Hormuz, says Iranian foreign ministry – as it happened

The Guardian · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · · 2573 words · By Taz Ali; Nadeem Badshah; Lucy Campbell; Julia Kollewe
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Iran and Oman agreed on coordinates of route through Hormuz, Iran's foreign ministry says The geographic coordinates for a shipping route through the straitof Hormuz have been agreed by Iran and Oman, and a joint announcement is being finalised, provided no…

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What happened

Iran and Oman agreed on coordinates of route through Hormuz, Iran's foreign ministry says The geographic coordinates for a shipping route through the straitof Hormuz have been agreed by Iran and Oman, and a joint announcement is being finalised, provided no…

Why it matters

Baghaei added that any such agreement between Iran and Oman would not, by itself, guarantee security in the strategic waterway.

Common ground

Iran and Oman have agreed a route for ships transiting the strait of Hormuz and are finalising the draft deal for jointly managing the waterway, Tehran’s foreign ministry said Wednesday.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 18 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “the strait has been effectively shut since 28 February”
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Claim 2: “The average price of a litre of petrol in the UK rose to a new Iran war high of 161.5p on Wednesday”
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Claim 3: “This is the eighth ship they have attacked since 22 July, when they announced that they were imposing a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia”
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Multiple sources (JFeed, Reuters via web search, and another web search result) confirm the claim that the Houthis have attacked eight ships since imposing a naval blockade on July 22.
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web search NEUTRAL — Houthis Attack Saudi Tanker in Intensifying Red Sea Campaign; 8 Vessels Hit Since July 22.The Houthi attacks put at risk oil shipments from Saudi Arabia's Yanbu port on the Red Sea and present a "doub…
https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/houthis-red-sea-attacks
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web search NEUTRAL — The Houthis said on Monday they were imposing a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea, a move that threatens to disrupt global energy supplies beyond the Gulf. In the same statement, the Houth…
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-07-22/yemens…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Houthis claim to have attacked eight ships linked to Saudi Arabia since they declared a blockade on Saudi shipping last month.Credit...Houthi Military, via Reuters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/world/middleeast/houthis-…
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Claim 4: “Diesel has gone up... to 181.5p – a rise of 10% – since a conflict low point of 164.5p on 9 July”
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Claim 5: “the United Nations said more than 800,000 people displaced by war have begun returning to their homes in Lebanon”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant results about United Airlines and general UN/Lebanon relations, but contains no mention of 800,000 displaced people returning home.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Lebanese Republic is one of the 51 founding members of the United Nations when it signed the United Nations Conference on International Organization in 1945. Lebanon has played the role and has pa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_and_the_United_Nations
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of United Nations Security Council resolutions relating to Lebanon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolut…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Arabic: قوة الأمم المتحدة المؤقتة في لبنان; Hebrew: כוח האו"ם הזמני בלבנון), or UNIFIL (Arabic: يونيفيل; Hebrew: יוניפי״ל) is a United Nations peacekeeping…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Interim_Force_i…
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Claim 6: “The UK’s Maritime Trade Operations centre (UKMTO) has said that a vessel off the coast of Yemen has reported a loud explosion nearby... 95 nautical miles (176kms) southeast of Aden”
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Claim 7: “Khamenei is believed to have been injured in the war’s opening strikes on 28 February and has not been seen in public since then”
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Claim 8: “The Houthis imposed a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea last month”
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Claim 9: “Saree said the rebels targeted the “Saudi oil tanker Daisy in the Gulf of Aden with a ballistic missile””
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm the claim regarding the tanker 'Daisy' in the Gulf of Aden.
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Claim 10: “Nine Saudi oil tankers have been targeted since the start of the blockade last month, according to figures given by a Houthi military spokesman”
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Claim 11: “Mojtaba has not made any public appearances since he became supreme leader, replacing his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in one of the first strikes launched against Iran by the US and Israel”
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Multiple sources confirm that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in US/Israeli strikes in March 2026, was succeeded by his son Mojtaba, and that Mojtaba has had limited or no public appearances since.
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web search NEUTRAL — Ali Khamenei became Supreme Leader in 1989, and led the country until March 2026 when he was killed during an attack by Israel and the United States that hit his compound.Tehran retaliates following t…
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/who-is-ayatollah-khomeini
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web search NEUTRAL — Khamenei was succeeded by his son, Mojtaba, who has not been seen in public since becoming supreme leader. Key questions around the ceremony centre on whether Mojtaba will attend the funeral.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k4k7jqeno
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web search NEUTRAL — Mojtaba Khamenei accused the US of breaching a framework ceasefire and warned of consequences, while his limited public appearances deepen uncertainty over Iran's leadership amid regional strikes.
https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/8d6ef300_mojtaba_khamenei_accuse…
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Claim 12: “US West Texas Intermediate futures gained 34 cents, or 0.45%, to $76.11”
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The evidence provides general definitions of WTI and Brent crude but does not contain the specific price movement of 0.45% to $76.11.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — West Texas is a loosely defined region in the U.S. state of Texas, generally encompassing the arid and semiarid lands west of a line drawn between the cities of Wichita Falls, Abilene, and Del Rio. No…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is a grade or mix of crude oil; the term is also used to refer to the spot price, the futures price, or assessed price for that oil. In colloquial usage, WTI usually refe…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict is an ongoing armed conflict between the Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia and Iran-backed Yemeni Houthi forces in the Arabian Peninsula, including the southern Saudi prov…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi–Saudi_Arabian_conflict
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Claim 13: “The Houthis said they had launched a missile attack on a Saudi oil tanker off the coast of Yanbu”
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Multiple independent sources (Xinhua/web search, China.org.cn, and another web search result) confirm the Houthi claim of a missile attack on a Saudi oil tanker off the coast of Yanbu.
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web search NEUTRAL — Yemen's Houthi group said Wednesday it had targeted a Saudi oil tanker with a ballistic missile in the Gulf of Aden, several hours after claiming a separate missile attack on another Saudi tanker in t…
http://www.china.org.cn/2026-08/06/content_118635797.shtml
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web search NEUTRAL — Sarea said the latest attack brought the number of Saudi oil tankers targeted by Houthi forces since the campaign began to eight, while 29 other tankers had been forced to turn back. The claims could …
https://english.news.cn/20260805/9b52eef205b549b4837962cd809…
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web search NEUTRAL — Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Wednesday they had launched a missile attack on a Saudi oil tanker off the coast of the kingdom's Red Sea port city of Yanbu and another missile attack on a Saudi …
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-08-06/gulf-s…
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Claim 14: “the group “successfully targeted the Saudi oil tanker Wafa in the northern Red Sea, off the coast of Yanbu, with a number of ballistic missiles,” spokesman Yahya Saree said”
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Multiple sources (ISNA and LEAP) specifically name the tanker 'Wafa' and quote spokesperson Yahya Saree regarding the ballistic missile attack off the coast of Yanbu.
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web search NEUTRAL — Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the tanker Wafa was hit by several ballistic missiles off Yanbu, a Saudi port on the Red Sea.The Houthis said operations against Saudi oil vessels in the nor…
https://leap.uz/en/2026/08/05/houthi-saudi-tanker-airport-st…
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web search NEUTRAL — 5 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi group said on Wednesday that it had launched a ballistic missile attack on a Saudi oil tanker in the northern Red Sea, as the group vowed to expand its campaign against Sa…
https://english.news.cn/20260805/9b52eef205b549b4837962cd809…
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web search NEUTRAL — Yemeni Armed Forces launched a ballistic missile attack targeting a Saudi oil tanker off the coast of Yanbu, bringing the total number of Saudi vessels targeted since late July to eight, a military sp…
https://en.isna.ir/news/1405051408231/Yemeni-forces-target-S…
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Claim 15: “At least one person was killed and 11 others injured in Israeli strikes on the southern town of Tibnin”
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Sources provide conflicting casualty counts for the strike in Tibnin. One source reports one person killed and 12 injured, while another reports two martyrs and 11 injuries.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 2 March 2026, there has been an ongoing war in Lebanon between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah, with Israel invading parts of Lebanon. It is a resumption of major fighting in the Hezboll…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Lebanon_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon damaged or destroyed various cultural heritage sites. The damage was focused in southern Lebanon, with sites affected directly and indirectly. As well as individua…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_cultural_herita…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tibnin (Arabic: تبنين, romanized: Tibnīn, also romanized Tibnîn, Tebnine etc.) is a municipality spread across several hills (ranging in altitude from 700m to 800m (2,275 ft to 2,600 ft) above sea lev…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibnin
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Claim 16: “The geographic coordinates for a shipping route through the strait of Hormuz have been agreed by Iran and Oman”
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Three independent news sources (Flipboard, EuroNews, and Deutsche Welle) all report that Iran and Oman have agreed on the geographic coordinates/route for shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From 28 February 2026, as part of the 2026 Iran war, Iran began launching a series of drone strikes on sites in Oman and the Strait of Hormuz, targeting the Port of Duqm and the Port of Salalah, which…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iranian_strikes_on_Oman
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Following the 2026 Iran war, Iran has asserted sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, increasing its total area and adding to its territorial waters. Iran has asserted this control over the strait by …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_sovereignty_over_the_S…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Strait of Hormuz () is a waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. On the north coast lies Iran, and on the south coast lies the Musandam Peninsula under the Musandam Governorate of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz
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Claim 17: “The war has displaced more than one million people”
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Claim 18: “Brent crude futures were up 81 cents, or 1.02%, at $80.17 a barrel by 12pm GMT”
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The evidence provided contains general information about Brent Crude futures and unrelated Wikipedia entries about a tornado and a stabbing, but does not confirm the specific price of $80.17 at 12pm GMT.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2006 London tornado was a significant United Kingdom tornado spawned from a squall line moving over the city on 7 December 2006 at approximately 11:02 GMT. Its intensity is estimated to have been …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 10 February 2026, two students were injured after being stabbed in the neck at Kingsbury High School in the London Borough of Brent in England. A 13-year-old suspect was arrested later that day. Th…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brent ( ) is a borough in west and north-west London, England; it forms part of Outer London. It is known for landmarks such as Wembley Stadium, the Swaminarayan Temple and the Kiln Theatre. It also c…
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