US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has issued a new warning to Oman after President Donald Trump threatened to “blow up” the US ally.Bessent’s warning comes a day after Trump threatened to “blow up” Oman if it didn’t agree to his demands regarding control of the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian state TV said it had obtained a draft of an agreement to restore commercial shipping with Iran and Oman jointly managing traffic. Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei called Trump’s threat “another dangerous sign of the normalisation of lawlessness and bullying in international relations.” Tensions escalated as the US struck an Iranian drone operation near the Strait of Hormuz, leading to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard retaliating with an attack on a regional US air base and warning of a “more decisive” response to further aggression. Is the world normalising lawlessness ?

