India’s domestic push for energy conservation is a refusal to be “extorted” and allow the Strait of Hormuz to be turned into a “private toll corridor” with demands up to $2 million per voyage being made, government sources have said.
“The PM’s request to reduce fuel use is an act of refusal to be extorted, proving that India does not negotiate from a position of fear,” a government source close to the development said.
Unofficial fees of up to $2 million are being demanded (purportedly by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran) for safe transit of ships through the Strait of Hormuz but India would not pay this “unofficial toll”, the source added.
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