President makes comments after reports Iran and Oman have discussed jointly charging a toll for ships. Plus, how ‘balcony solar’ could help fight rising energy costs Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. In a casual aside during a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Donald Trump threatened to “blow up” Oman , a US ally, if it failed to “behave” over the reopening the strait of Hormuz. What is the latest on a deal to end the war? Negotiations are continuing but the US earlier this week struck Iranian targets, reportedly killing four members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which prompted an apparent Iranian retaliatory attack on an American airbase in Kuwait. What is happening inside Iran? Internet restrictions were partially lifted this week, revealing