US Treasury Secretary threatened to target ally Oman if it helped impose a tolling system in the key Strait of Hormuz, warning of sanctions against all parties involved in such actions.

“Oman will behave just like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up,” he told reporters at the White House.

“Oman will behave just like everybody else or we will have to blow them up,” Trump said in surprising comments on Wednesday.

Donald Trump is apparently ready to expand his regional war in the Middle East.