Iran Draws New Maritime ‘Oversight Zone’ Across Strait of Hormuz

Iran’s self-declared Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) has published what appears to be the clearest geographic definition yet of the maritime zone it claims authority over in the Strait of Hormuz, escalating Tehran’s effort to formalize a permission-based transit regime through one of the world’s most critical shipping chokepoints.

In a new post on X, the PGSA said the Islamic Republic of Iran has defined the boundaries of its “Strait of Hormuz management supervision area” as extending from “the line connecting Kuh Mobarak in Iran and the south of Fujairah in the UAE in the east of the strait to