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This image is from Iran's own Persian Gulf Strait Authority account, launched two days ago on X with Supreme National Security Council backing. So let me tell you what this actually means because most people are not reading it properly.

Any ship wanting to transit Hormuz now needs to apply to the PGSA, hand over ownership details, crew manifests, cargo declarations and pay a fee that has reportedly reached $2 million per passage in Bitcoin or yuan. If you pay it you are breaching US sanctions. If you do not pay it the IRGC can seize your vessel. There is no clean option.

Israeli ships are banned outright. Ships from nations that sanctioned Iran are blocked until compensation is paid. Every document must say Persian Gulf, not Arabian Gulf.

And a law formally giving Iran legal sovereignty over the Strait passed parliamentary committee on 21 April. It is heading for a full vote.

People keep calling the PGSA a negotiating tactic. It is not. Iran is building the permanent infrastructure it intends to keep after any deal is signed. That is the bit nobody is saying out loud.

HMS Dragon and the Charles de Gaulle did not transit Suez for nothing.

Sources: Maritime Executive, Euronews, Lloyd's List, PGSA X account.

OSINT: u/MIlitary-news

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