Iran Introduces No-Shipping Zone East of Strait of Hormuz — Report
In this Sunday, July 21, 2019 photo, a speedboat of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard trains a weapon toward the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which was seized in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. Global stock markets were subdued Monday while the price of oil climbed as tensions in the Persian Gulf escalated after Iran’s seizure of a British oil tanker on Friday. 
TEHRAN (Sputnik) — Iran is imposing a no-shipping zone east of the Strait of Hormuz, and vessels must coordinate with Tehran to pass through it, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spokesman Hossein Mohebbi said on Wednesday. «The closed area starts from the port of Chabahar all the way to certain areas of the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea,» Mohebbi said, as quoted by the Fars news agency. Any vessel passing through this zone will be subject to sanctions, if it does not coordinate its passage with Tehran, the spokesman said.
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