Iran\u2019s threats and attacks on shipping in the Strait have effectively halted the movement of around 15 million barrels of crude per day from the Persian Gulf, triggering sharp volatility in global oil markets<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s Parliamentary Security Commission has passed a plan to impose a toll on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, as the key waterway continues to be blocked due to the war.<\/p>\n
The plan aims to increase Iran\u2019s sovereignty over the strait, including\u00a0\u201csecurity arrangements to safeguard the waterway, measures to ensure maritime navigation safety and financial regulations and rial-denominated tolls for vessels passing through and the prohibition of passage for vessels belonging to the United States and Israel,\u201d Iran\u2019s state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) said.<\/p>\n
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Iran\u2019s threats and attacks on shipping in the Strait have effectively halted the movement of around 15 million barrels of crude per day from the Persian Gulf, triggering sharp volatility in global oil markets.<\/p>\n
Trump wants Hormuz to be opened<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has warned that if a deal were not struck \u2013 including to reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz shipping lane \u2013 US forces would destroy \u201call of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinisation plants!).\u201d<\/p>\n
The tolling plan for the strait has outraged the United States, which has spoken of creating a \u201ccoalition\u201d to oppose it.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one in the world can accept it,\u201d Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Al-Jazeera.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt sets an incredible precedent.\u00a0So this means that nations can now take over international waterways and claim them as their own,\u201d Rubio said of the waterway the US president recently called the \u201cStrait of Trump\u201d.<\/p>\n
G7 calls for \u2019toll-free\u2019 Hormuz<\/p>\n
Last week, A joint statement, released in the name of all G7 members, including the United States, called for \u201can immediate cessation of attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThere can be no justification for the deliberate targeting of civilians in situations of armed conflict as well as attacks on diplomatic facilities,\u201d it said, after the foreign ministers of the world\u2019s leading industrialised nations met in France.<\/p>\n With inputs from agencies<\/p>\n Home<\/a>World<\/a>Iran approves plan to impose toll on ships passing through Strait of HormuzEnd of Article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s threats and attacks on shipping in the Strait have effectively halted the movement of around 15 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[18457,16208,18458,39,9478,14634,18455,18459,18456,17608],"class_list":{"0":"post-44051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-persian-gulf","8":"tag-international-maritime-organization-iran","9":"tag-iran-maritime-security","10":"tag-oil-shipments-disruption","11":"tag-persian-gulf","12":"tag-persian-gulf-shipping-routes","13":"tag-strait-of-hormuz-toll","14":"tag-strait-of-hormuz-transit","15":"tag-toll-on-ships-in-strait-of-hormuz","16":"tag-un-security-council-iran","17":"tag-us-israel-conflict-iran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116321605573094459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44051","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=44051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nG7 foreign ministers<\/a> stressed the \u201cabsolute necessity\u201d of restoring safe and toll-free freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n