“We believe that the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman should not turn into a place ruled by parading fleets of warships,” he was quoted as saying. It said he stressed that Oman does not accept the presence of foreign military forces in the region. Fars did not mention that Oman signed a military access agreement with Washington in 1981 that allows the American military to use Thumrait Naval Base, the Seeb Airport and the Masirah Air Base in Oman. It also didn’t mention that 3,000 U.S. airmen were based in Oman before the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq or that Oman was one of the few regional countries to give logistics support to the U.S. invasion.