Rethinking the Hormuz Toll Debate: Can Coastal States Monetize Maritime Security?

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Dr. Soheil Golchin is an international law specialist and a former legal intern at ITLOS. He holds a PhD from Tehran University and a second master’s in Human Rights Studies from Fulda University of Applied Sciences in Germany.

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Rethinking the Hormuz Toll Debate: Can Coastal States Monetize Maritime Security?

August 25, 2026

Soheil Golchin

Seyed Hossein Sadat Meidani

“Some reconcilement of remotest mind, Leaves [H]ormuz rubyless, and Ophir chill.” Hart Crane (1899–1932) With the United States waging an illegal war against Iran to reshape the architecture of the Middle East, the architecture of the Hormuz Strait may now be reshaped, moving toward its own “Malacca Moment”: a…