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Parliament’s security panel weighs 12 bills on Hormuz, maritime zones
Iran’s Parliament referred 12 draft bills concerning the Strait of Hormuz and amendments to the country's law on maritime zones to its National Security and Foreign Policy Committee.
Spokesperson for the Parliament's Presiding Board Abbas Goudarzi said on Saturday that of the 12 draft bills, nine concern the Strait of Hormuz, while the remaining three relate to amendments to the law governing Iran's maritime zones.
Secondary committees on judiciary, civil, and economic affairs are reviewing specific elements, including maritime navigation rules, common funding pools, and legal penalties for non-compliance.
Iran shut down the chokepoint to enemies and their allies after February 28, when the US and the Israeli regime began their latest bout of wholesale unprovoked aggression against the Islamic Republic.
The Islamic Republic began exercising far stricter controls after Donald Trump announced continuation of an illegal naval blockade of Iranian vessels and ports in spite of a ceasefire that the US president, himself, had declared on April 7.
In May, Iran officially launched a new mechanism for governing maritime traffic through the strategic strait, with the Islamic Republic warning vessels against refusing to coordinate their pending transits with Iranian authorities and using routes other than the supervisory management zone defined by Tehran.
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Saturday their forces stopped four ships attempting to transit the strategic Strait of Hormuz over the past 24 hours.
"Four vessels that had intended to transit through the southern area of the Strait of Hormuz via an illegal and unsafe route were stopped over the past 24 hours after warning shots were fired by the IRGC Navy," the IRGC said in a statement quoted by state television, adding that the ships had "altered course.”