Iran Extracting Toll from Ships Through Strait
Iran Extracting Toll from Ships Through Strait
March 23, 2026 at 3:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 166 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2026/03/23/iran-extracting-toll-from-ships-through-strait/
Financial Times: “Iran has for years threatened to shut down the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and gas passes. And now they have done so, Iranian officials have indicated, it will no longer be business as usual.”
“Tehran’s ability to slow the flow of traffic to a near halt through attacks and threats has been its main point of leverage over Trump and the global economy, pushing energy prices to multiyear highs.”
“Ship owners and masters are no longer willing to risk using the strait. At least one tanker has reportedly paid $2mn for safe passage through the waterway. An Iranian MP said that would be the new normal, suggesting Iran would extract a toll from vessels.”
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I don't see a problem with it, natural or man made, it belongs to those who control it. If they charge a fee pay it.
'Others' include the St. Lawrence river where the fees are charged by both Canada and the US.
A doable resolve, or should we allow this stupid trumpshitshow to go on indefinitely because we can't accept that other countries will be charged to use it? That is, since we don't use it, according to the wannabe king.
This is, at least, a solution, maybe not the best but possible and more acceptable than what we have now in this nightmare that OUR government started. I don't think we will have a say in the end.
