Iranian political and military figure, a former long-serving Revolutionary Guards commander, now secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.
Mohsen Rezaei says the zone will run from the U.S. blockade line through the strait and into the Gulf, aimed at vessels Iran believes are trying to transit; the belief test, not the geometry, is what shipping has to price.
A monthlong lull had let planners treat the six-month war as a decaying risk. Then Brent went from about $80 to about $95 in the days after American forces hit rocket launchers on a Hormuz island.
Mohsen Rezaei took over Iran's Supreme National Security Council in the August decrees and says continued economic war ends oil exports from the Persian Gulf. The collateral is mostly other producers' cargo, and the supreme leader who would sign any deal has not been seen in 182 days.
A sectoral determination under Executive Order 13902 exposes any foreign firm Treasury says operates in Iran's digital asset sector. Two of roughly 60 names in Monday's action were crypto-linked.
Tehran's new security chief says any country backing Washington's Monday package is committing an act of war. The strait authority now naming ships for fines is itself under U.S. sanctions.
Traffic at 6% of normal and Brent near $94 have held for six months with no resolution in sight. Iran's vetting queue, not price, decides who sails the Gulf's main export corridor.