The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Iran’s “Persian Gulf Strait Authority,” the agency launched this month as Tehran works to exert control of transit through the Strait of Hormuz, CNBC reports.
U.S. Sanctions Iran’s Hormuz Strait Agency
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