Status › Claim tracker › 2026-04-22
IRIB — Misleading
· Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting · source: https://en.irib.ir/
Claim (verbatim)
Vessels seeking transit through the Strait of Hormuz will receive correspondence from info@pgsa.ir as the official interface to the IRGC for transit arrangements.
— IRIB, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting,
Primary-source rebuttals
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· Maritime Executive
Trade press coverage of the formalization noted that no IMO or international convention authorizes Iran to charge for transit through the Strait of Hormuz, an international strait subject to the right of transit passage under UNCLOS Part III.
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· U.S. Treasury OFAC
U.S. sanctions program guidance establishes that payments to the IRGC, a Foreign Terrorist Organization since April 2019, expose payers to U.S. secondary sanctions regardless of stated purpose.
https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/iran-sanctions
Editorial note
The communication channel claim is factually accurate (info@pgsa.ir is an active inbound route used by the IRGC). The implied legitimacy of the fee structure is not. Logged as misleading rather than false because the channel itself is real; the gap is between the channel's existence and its enforceability under international law.
Verdict scale: false (1) · misleading (2) · disputed/partly-true (3) · confirmed (5). See tracker index for the full list. Editorial policy: claims are quoted verbatim; rebuttals link to primary sources only; PGSA.IO does not editorialize on top of source material. See about.