Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi has called on the United States and Iran to extend their ceasefire and accept "painful concessions" in order to reach a lasting resolution to the conflict in the Middle East. Writing on X, al-Busaidi said such sacrifices "cannot be compared to the pain of failure and war," and noted that a meeting with US Vice President JD Vance hours before hostilities broke out left him with the impression that the Trump administration had a genuine desire to avoid war. His appeal follows the collapse of US-Iran talks hosted in Islamabad (Pakistan's capital), with Oman — which previously brokered a negotiating round in February involving senior American and Iranian officials — positioning itself as a key diplomatic intermediary between the two sides.