US adds Persian Gulf Strait Authority to sanctions list, Treasury website shows

The United States on Wednesday issued new Iran-related sanctions by adding the Persian Gulf Strait Authority to its Specially Designated Nationals list, ‌the ⁠Treasury ⁠Department's website showed.

The authority is a body Iran has set up to manage requests for passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

Tehran's grip on the strait, the conduit for ⁠about a ‌fifth of the global oil supply, has sent the world ⁠economy into turmoil.


It closed the strait after the U.S. and Israel launched its war against Iran on February 28.

The Persian Gulf Strait Authority published a map last week reaffirming Tehran's claims to ‌a wide stretch of water on either side of the choke point.

The designation ⁠was announced by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which maintains the SDN list of thousands of names of sanctioned individuals and entities.