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Iran’s apical information assemblage announced connected Monday (May 18, 2026) the enactment of a caller assemblage to negociate the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran has efficaciously closed and wants to complaint ships to traverse.
On its authoritative X account, the Supreme National Security Council shared a station for the Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) saying it would supply “real‑time updates connected the #Hormuz_Strait operations and latest developments.”
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The relationship of the Revolutionary Guards navy shared the aforesaid post.
It was not instantly wide what the caller assemblage would bash but earlier this period Iranian English-speaking broadcaster Press TV said it constituted a “system to workout sovereignty implicit the Strait of Hormuz” and that ships passing done the strait were sent “regulations” from the email info@pgsa.ir.
Iran has mostly blocked shipping done the captious strait since the outbreak of warfare with the United States and Israel connected February 28. A fragile ceasefire has been successful spot since April 8.
Iran’s grip implicit the waterway has rattled planetary markets and fixed Tehran important leverage, portion the United States has imposed its ain naval blockade connected Iranian ports.
In peacetime, the way accounts for astir a 5th of planetary lipid and liquefied earthy state shipments, on with different cardinal commodities including fertiliser.
Since the warfare began, Iran has repeatedly said that maritime postulation done the strait would “not instrumentality to its pre-war status” and past period it said it had received the archetypal gross from tolls connected the waterway.
On Saturday (May 16, 2026), Ebrahim Azizi, caput of the Iranian parliament’s nationalist information commission, said Iran “has prepared a nonrecreational mechanics to negociate traffic” done the strait, adding that it volition beryllium “unveiled soon””.
