Reports in this edition put Gulf ministers in Salalah for Hormuz safe-route talks, with Iraq explicitly listed among the expected participants. The current Record does not carry the meeting date, so the supported clock is narrower: a live diplomatic track exists, but the filing cannot make Monday do work the evidence has not shown. [E2] [E3]
The authority question remains the useful one. Salalah can show whether Gulf governments are willing to sit with Tehran over Hormuz, but the cited fragments do not show final corridor text, a fee schedule or any term binding Washington. [E2] [E3]
Attendance still matters because regional cover is part of the policy claim. The prepared record says Houthi advances may keep some GCC seats empty, so a sparse meeting would weaken the argument that the corridor has broad Gulf backing even if Tehran and Baghdad are present. [E1] [E2]
For readers watching tankers rather than communiques, the unresolved details are practical. A safe-route mechanism changes Hormuz accounting only when the record shows who may enter, which waters they use, what they pay and who answers if the route fails; until then, Salalah is a policy gate, not a reopened strait. [E3]