New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- The numbers that will matter when shipping companies send their first post-war tankers through the Strait of Hormuz are not simply the coordinates of a transit lane. They include, increasingly, the fees.

and noting that "appropriate fees would be charged for all services provided." The announcement came alongside reports that Iran's parliament had approved a bill addressing what Tehran called "strategic measures to ensure the security and sustainable development of the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf," with one member of parliament's presiding board, Alireza Salimi, disclosing that legislators were also considering whether to ban vessels affiliated with the United States and Israel from passing through entirel...