Iran Demands Strait of Hormuz Transit Fees During Ceasefire, Financial Times Says

The core claim is supported by three independently fetched articles — CoinDesk, PANews, and BlockBeats — all of which attribute the same details to the Financial Times article titled 'Iran demands fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire'. CoinDesk states the fee is about $1 per barrel, payable in digital assets such as bitcoin during a two-week ceasefire, and attributes the plan to comments from Hamid Hosseini. PANews closely matches those details and additionally reports that around 300 to 400 vessels were waiting in the Gulf. A web search also surfaced the exact Financial Times article URL and title matching those rewrites. The main limitation is that direct fetching of the FT article failed, so the primary report itself could not be validated from fetched content in this run. Because the evidence is consistent but mostly indirect, the statement is best assessed as likely true rather than conclusively verified.