Iran intends to charge commercial vessels fees for passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the Foreign Ministry in Tehran said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei was quoted by Iranian media as saying that Iran was working with Oman on “mechanisms for monitoring security, protecting the environment and combating crime at sea.”<\/p>\n
Fees and charges would be levied for maritime services provided to ships, he explained.<\/p>\n
The dispute over transit rights in the strait, a key international route for oil, gas and fertilizer, is considered one of the main triggers for the recent escalation in the military conflict between Washington and Tehran.<\/p>\n
Before the United States and Israel launched their war against Iran on February 28, shipping through the strait proceeded largely undisturbed without tolls nor fees for transit.<\/p>\n
The Strait of Hormuz measures only around 39 kilometres at its narrowest point.<\/p>\n
Since Iran and Oman each claim the maximum 12 nautical miles (22.2 kilometres) allowed under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) as their territorial waters, there are no international waters in the strait.<\/p>\n
UNCLOS guarantees a right of transit passage and prohibits a blockade of commercial vessels. Iran does not accept this legal position.<\/p>\n
The US goal is to restore pre-war levels of oil and gas transit through the Strait of Hormuz, Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Baghaei also responded to US President Donald Trump’s claim on Sunday, reported by the Axios media outlet, that Washington and Tehran were engaging in a “chess game.”<\/p>\n
Whether behind the scenes or in the spotlight, the Iranians have proven themselves to be professional chess players, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran intends to charge commercial vessels fees for passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the Foreign Ministry in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[2363,5309,444,102,34,50513,101,69,17322],"class_list":["post-243428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-arabian-gulf","tag-commercial-vessels","tag-gulf-of-oman","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-transit-passage"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117071488673116042","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243428","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=243428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}