A draft Iran-Oman agreement covering Strait of Hormuz shipping would bar US and Israeli linked vessels and impose fees of up to 7% of cargo value, but it still needs approval from Iran's parliament and from Acting Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who has been in hiding since being injured in February strikes. A former State Department official called the terms unlikely to be accepted in Washington. Gold's steepest move over the same window tracked a weak US jobs signal rather than the Hormuz headlines.
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