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Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, announced on
\nThursday a \u201cnew management\u201d plan for the Strait of Hormuz, pledging to bring
\n\u201ccalm and economic benefits\u201d to the region while reaffirming Tehran\u2019s
\ncommitment to securing the Gulf.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Khamenei described the deployment of US
\nforces in Gulf states as a key driver of tensions.<\/p>\n
He said Iran shares a common destiny with its neighbors and
\nwill work to secure the Gulf and end \u201cviolations in the waterway,\u201d adding that
\nthe new management of the Strait of Hormuz would bring calm, progress, and
\neconomic benefits to Gulf states while pointing to a future without a US
\npresence.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) noted
\nin a statement marking National Persian Gulf Day that Gulf security can only be
\nachieved through regional cooperation among littoral states without foreign
\nforces, describing the Gulf as a vital artery for the region\u2019s economy, energy,
\nand communications, and calling for stability and sustainable security through
\ncollective regional participation.<\/p>\n
On April 28, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) called<\/a> for Iran began collecting transit fees from ships passing
\nthe immediate restoration of maritime security and freedom of navigation in the
\nStrait of Hormuz to pre-February 28 conditions, and rejected any measures that
\ncould disrupt<\/a> shipping, including the imposition of transit fees on passing
\nvessels.<\/p>\n
\nthrough the Strait of Hormuz last week, according to lawmaker Ali Reza Salimi,
\nwith the Central Bank confirming it received the payments in cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-04-30T11:53:18+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Tehran Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, announced on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[152,2567,102,34,32295,2289,39,32296],"class_list":{"0":"post-91396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-persian-gulf","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-gulf-countries","10":"tag-hormuz","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-iran-sets-new-hormuz-management-plan","13":"tag-mojtaba-khamenei","14":"tag-persian-gulf","15":"tag-rejects-us-presence"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116494762193274727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91396","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=91396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}