{"id":729301,"date":"2026-06-27T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/729301\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:54:09","slug":"iran-insists-prior-clearance-for-hormuz-transit-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/729301\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran insists prior clearance for Hormuz transit &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-06-27T12:41:22+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Tehran<\/p>\n<p>Ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz must obtain prior<br \/>\nauthorization from Iranian authorities, the country&#8217;s State Television reported on Saturday,<br \/>\nindicating that several vessels currently stranded in the gateway are seeking<br \/>\ntheir permits.<\/p>\n<p>Citing an Iranian official, the broadcaster noted that Tehran\u2019s<br \/>\nnavigation rules for Hormuz remain fully in force, requiring all vessels to<br \/>\ncoordinate with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy before<br \/>\nentering or leaving the passage.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran has repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Iran-restricts-Strait-of-Hormuz-transit-to-approved-routes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">insisted <\/a>that ships comply with its navigation<br \/>\nprocedures, suggesting it could impose fees on vessels using the route. The<br \/>\nUnited States and several Gulf countries reject that position, maintaining that<br \/>\nthe maritime corridor is an international waterway despite its location within<br \/>\nthe territorial waters of Iran and Oman.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the United States accused Tehran of a drone attack on<br \/>\na commercial vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz, a claim Iran rejected. US Central Command (CENTCOM) also carried out <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/World\/US-attacks-Iranian-sites-near-Hormuz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">strikes<\/a> against Iranian<br \/>\nmilitary sites following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The IRGC later charged Washington with breaching Article 5 of the<br \/>\nmemorandum of understanding recently signed in Islamabad, which assigns Iran<br \/>\nresponsibility for coordinating navigation through Hormuz, while <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/IRGC-Iran-hit-US-positions-in-the-Middle-East\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">targeting<\/a> US<br \/>\nmilitary positions in the Middle East in retaliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-06-27T12:41:22+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Tehran Ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,801,313511,3,19565,210369,452,453,24],"class_list":["post-729301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-insists-prior-clearance-for-hormuz-transit","tag-news","tag-regulations","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}