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The Friendly Rate

Iran has begun charging for passage through the Strait of Hormuz by political alignment. China, named a friendly country, is offered a discount. Everyone outside the friendly list pays full mandatory fees and risks attack for using any route Iran does not authorize. The world's most important oil ch

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Four Days

Iran signed the Geneva MoU on June 19. Four days later, it attacked vessels using the International Maritime Organization's sanctioned alternative corridor along the Oman coast. The enforcement phase of Iran's Hormuz management claim had already begun before the diplomatic ink dried.