Iran's Majlis (parliament) will codify a double-urgency plan aimed at closing the Strait of Hormuz in response to the US-led European Union (EU) embargoes on the country’s oil industry, an Iranian lawmaker says.

“The Majlis Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy has drawn up a plan which puts emphasis on blocking the passage of tankers carrying oil through the Strait of Hormuz to countries that imposed sanctions on Iran,” a member of the committee Ebrahim Aqa-Mohammadi said on Monday.

He added that the plan has been codified in response to oil sanctions imposed on Iran by the 27-member union.
The lawmaker said asserting its sovereign right in coastal and domestic waters is the minimum measure that can be taken by Iran in response to the unfair Western oil sanctions against Tehran.

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