{"id":137688,"date":"2026-05-30T14:52:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/137688\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T14:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:52:27","slug":"us-treasury-sanctions-irans-hormuz-strait-authority-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/137688\/","title":{"rendered":"US Treasury sanctions Iran&#8217;s Hormuz strait authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WASHINGTON, May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; The United States has sanctioned the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, \u200cthe body Iran has set up to \u200cmanage the Strait of Hormuz, the Treasury Department said on \u200bWednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 The authority is a body Iran has set up to manage requests for passage through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 Tehran&#8217;s grip on the \u200cstrait, the conduit \u2060for about a fifth of the global oil supply, has sent the \u2060world economy into turmoil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 It closed the strait after the U.S. and Israel launched its war \u200bagainst Iran \u200bon February 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 Anyone \u200bcooperating with the \u200cauthority may be providing support to and receiving services from Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and may be sanctioned, the Treasury said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 &#8220;The Iranian military\u2019s latest attempt to extort global \u200cmaritime trade is proof that \u200bEconomic Fury has left \u200bthe regime desperate \u200bfor cash,&#8221; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent \u200csaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 The Persian Gulf Strait \u200bAuthority published \u200ba map last week reaffirming Tehran&#8217;s claims to a wide stretch of water on either \u200bside of \u200cthe choke point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Bhargav Acharya and \u200bJasper Ward; Editing by Sonali Paul, Lincoln \u200bFeast and Raju Gopalakrishnan.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; The United States has sanctioned the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, \u200cthe body Iran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[34,39,101,1690,3769],"class_list":["post-137688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-iran","tag-persian-gulf","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-the-united-states","tag-treasury-department"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116664096744707417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}