Strait of Hormuz: Iran's wartime toll, or piracy that must be stopped?
Reports say ships are paying up to $2m under an Iranian scheme to pass the Strait of Hormuz, as the US warns Tehran over interfering with shipping. Iran frames it as wartime control of its waters; Washington calls it a threat to global trade.
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Iranian media present Tehran's control of passage through Hormuz — and the fees ships now pay — as a legitimate wartime measure in its own strategic waters amid the US-Israel war.
Washington insists the ceasefire holds and warns Iran against interfering with Red Sea and Gulf shipping — framing any toll or seizure as a threat to freedom of navigation and global trade.
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