US Treasury Warns Companies Against Paying Iran Hormuz Transit Fees
🛢️ HORMUZ — Washington is sanctioning the toll booth Iran hasn't officially opened yet. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Treasury warning precedes formal fee imposition — it's pre-emptive sanctions architecture designed to make Iran's Strait Authority commercially unviable before it fully activates. Any company paying faces US secondary sanctions. This directly undercuts Tehran's core revenue model for Hormuz control, removing economic incentive for the very framework Iran insists on keeping.
