Saudi Arabia Files Amendments to Oman-Iran Hormuz Strait Proposal

The substance here is procedural, not geographic: Riyadh is intervening at the drafting stage of a proposal it did not author, which signals that Gulf states see the language of such arrangements, not just their existence, as the real battleground. That the initiative is attributed to Oman and Iran makes Saudi amendments a test of whether intra-Gulf consensus can hold when one member engages Tehran directly. What matters next is whether those amendments are absorbed or rejected, and whether other GCC states attach their own conditions.