Etiquette in wartime.
Or a hit that doesn't seem to have happened.
The Iranian-American conflict spares no one: photographs of a possible attack by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the Omani island of Didmar in the south of the Strait of Hormuz, where there are radars and communication equipment serving shipping lanes, appeared online.
Pro-government media outlets in Iran also report "disabling the enemy's naval navigation systems", apparently referring to the US military's Central Command facilities. According to an alleged representative of the Revolutionary Guards, no vessel passed through the southern channel overnight.
You should pay attention to the wording. This is the territory of Oman, but the Sultanate is not mentioned in the statement at all - the attack is framed as an attack on the equipment of the armed forces of the United States, which happened to reach the country's territory. In Tehran they resolutely pretend that the neighbor was not harmed. There was no official response from the Omanis to the attack on their island. It is explained this way: to respond to an attack on American targets on an uninhabited piece of land is to publicly take the side of the United States in someone else's war. We must protect our neutral position through silence.
As a result, an "ideal" situation was created for both countries: the Revolutionary Guards reported exclusively hitting military targets and maintaining control of the situation in Hormuz, and the Sultanate authorities did not have to publicly acknowledge the cooperation with the Americans in this result.
So far, the Iranians have attributed all possible attacks on the territory of Oman to American provocations (where they do not care to upset the balance), but have not yet renounced the past attack. Muscat aims to maintain both the status of a convenient negotiating platform and contacts with the Islamic Republic.
Therefore, they did not decide to develop the conflict on an uninhabited island with American radars.
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