Iran To Charge Ships Passing Strait Of Hormuz In Rial Said Ebrahim Azizi.

Tehran; April 2026: The Iranian Parliament has prepared a motion today (27th April 2026) to regulate future transit through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf stipulates that ships allowed to pass through the key waterway must pay tolls in rial – the Iranian currency.

The chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Ebrahim Azizi, said while addressing the media reporters today have said that charging tolls on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz is part of an 11 article motion being prepared in the parliament. Azizi told the reporters that the motion has been discussed and finalized in his committee and will become law once ratified in a vote in the main chamber of the Iranian parliament. He said the motion contains some smart and well-considered measures that are based on a decree by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, who said last month that Iran must introduce a new system of governance in the Strait of Hormuz.

Azizi said the measures include a total ban on transit for ships owned by or linked to the Israeli regime, as well as restrictions on passage for vessels connected to hostile countries and their affiliates. He said that the motion also seeks to require all countries that have inflicted financial damage on Iran over the past years, including by imposing sanctions or blocking its funds in foreign banks, to compensate Iran, through tolls paid by their ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

“It has been stipulated in the motion that the financial proceeds obtained from the Strait should be paid in Iranian rial”, he said.

The motion comes amid Iran’s continued control over transit through the Strait of Hormuz, which it has enforced since the early days of the US-Israeli aggression against the country in late February. Iran has maintained its control over the strait, although the aggression ceased in early April following a Pakistani-mediated ceasefire.

Team Maverick.