Iran's parliamentary Security Commission has approved a plan to regulate and impose tolls on vessels passing through the critical Strait of Hormuz shipping lane, a commission member announced.
Iranian state TV cited the member as having said that the plan involved "financial arrangements and rial toll systems,"
"Implementing the sovereign role of Iran," as well as cooperation with Oman on the other side of the strait, among other things.
The committee member was also cited as having said that American and Israeli vessels would be banned from passing through the waterway.
Nearly all traffic has grounded to a halt in the Strait of Hormuz since the US-Israeli war on Iran began on February 28.
The waterway connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea, and Iran's near-total blockade of the critical path for the world's flow of oil and natural gas has strained economies around the world.
