passage
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Iran has told mediators that under that truce, it would restrict traffic in the strait to around a dozen ships a day and charge a toll for safe passage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Charging a toll was "against the whole idea of international laws and free passage through international waterways", he said.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
The country has moved to charge tolls for passage and said that all vessels attempting to transit the strait must communicate with its military, a stipulation the U.S. has decried.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven advanced economies published a joint statement in late March calling for the immediate restoration of safe and toll-free passage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Somewhere in the middle of it, she remembered a passage she’d read the night before about Stavros Sinclair’s first significant breakthrough.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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