Oman postponed the Salalah ministerial between the six Gulf Cooperation Council states, Iraq and Iran on the night of Sunday September 13 2026, the eve of the meeting, without a new date. Saudi Arabia had submitted amendments to the Iran-Oman corridor draft, objecting that its wording would establish a new status quo in the strait unacceptable to Riyadh, and Bahrain refused to attend, calling the forum appeasement. Tehran said it would instead pursue a bilateral registration of the corridor with Oman. The corridor would have set an inbound route through Iranian waters and an outbound route through Omani waters with voluntary tolls - the only concrete machinery toward the durable reopening the energy thesis's invalidation requires, and it has now stalled.