{"id":526248,"date":"2026-07-05T11:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/526248\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:16:12","slug":"iran-plans-to-charge-service-fees-in-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/526248\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran plans to charge service fees in Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Islamic Republic intends to charge fees to ships crossing the Straight of Hormuz<\/a>, offering exemptions to \u201cfriendly nations,\u201d officials announced this weekend, despite US President Donald Trump<\/a> claiming late last month that Iran had promised him there would be no \u201cCHARGES OF ANY KIND BEING SOUGHT OR RECEIVED BY IRAN ON SHIPS TRAVELING THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s ambassador to China, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, announced Tehran\u2019s plans during the World Peace Forum in Beijing on Saturday, claiming that the regime was working in \u201ccollaboration and cooperation\u201d with Muscat on \u201cnew arrangements\u201d for Hormuz.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a country where the Hormuz is part of its territorial waters, we will definitely charge service fees,\u201d the official said, denying such charges were a toll, a notable difference which could decide the legality of Tehran\u2019s move.<\/p>\n

Under Articles 38 and 44 of UNCLOS, bordering Iran and Oman cannot suspend, impede, or charge tolls for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz. However, military historian Dr. Lynette Nusbacher, a former Devil\u2019s Advocate to Britain\u2019s Joint Intelligence Committee, previously explained to The Jerusalem Post that there was breathing room for Iran and Oman to charge a fee for services provided.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese new arrangements will be concerning guaranteeing the security of passage through the Straits of Hormuz, supervision of the passage of the vessels\u2026 and also guaranteeing and dealing with the environmental consequences of the massive number of ships,\u201d Fazli said. \u201cWe will definitely consider special treatment for the countries that were friendly to us and specially stood by us during the hard times.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA sailor observes the oil tanker HELGA, which is moored at one of Iraq’s southern offshore oil terminals near Basra, as it prepares to load crude oil, becoming the second vessel to arrive since the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, April 24, 2026. (credit: REUTERS\/Mohammed Aty\/File Photo)Trump: ‘Negotiations would end’ if fees implemented<\/p>\n

Trump previously claimed that \u201cnegotiations would end\u201d if Iran\u2019s alleged promise to Washington, not to seek fees, were false.<\/p>\n

Under the Memorandum of Understanding signed by Washington and Tehran, Iran agreed to guarantee safe passage through the strait without charging tolls or fees for the initial 60 days.<\/p>\n

Washington has already accused Tehran of violating the agreement after Iran took hostile action against ships crossing Hormuz outside what Tehran insists is the approved route.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Post on Sunday, Nusbacher asserted that Tehran<\/a> has made clear even from the wording of the MoU that it has intended to limit free passage to the period stipulated in the MoU, and they expect a new arrangement should the US want to see transit continue without fees beyond the 60-day period.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Nusbacher said Tehran has already begun laying the groundwork by offering favorable conditions to countries it considers supportive, conditions that would put American and European cargo at a disadvantage compared to Chinese assets crossing the waterway.<\/p>\n

American vision of talks a ‘fiction’ of a robust long-term agreement<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we are seeing is negotiating positions being set forth with public statements rather than being put across a table in a room,\u201d she explained. \u201cThe American version of this is designed to support the fiction that there is already a robust, long-term agreement in place, that the memorandum of understanding is something other than yet another shonky ceasefire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deepening the crisis for Washington\u2019s position is that Tehran \u201cdoes not feel constrained to change their position\u201d on developing nuclear weapons or even ballistic weapons, and the regime has been allowed to continue supporting its network of proxies, free from the economic pressure of sanctions, \u201cleaving Iran with all the freedom to operate that it has ever wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Nusbacher said there was still a chance for a new agreement, she stressed it was no longer possible for Washington to achieve any of its pre-war objectives, with Israel\u2019s government paying the price of the collective failure to capitalize on the achievements of the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only difference\u201d between before the war and now \u201cis that Iran<\/a> can now shut down a vital choke point at will. So, the only way there is a long-term agreement concluded is if the United States will stomach the continuation of the Iranian nuclear program as it was, just knocked back a few months or years,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Islamic Republic intends to charge fees to ships crossing the Straight of Hormuz, offering exemptions to \u201cfriendly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,42,149244,1486,43,114994,40,38,41,39,76279],"class_list":["post-526248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-hormuz","tag-memorandum-of-understanding","tag-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}