Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC, Iran's principal national security decision-making body chaired by the President) finalised a formal Hormuz security plan on 13 May, formalising the architecture Tehran began when it established the Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) in early May1. The PGSA has required vessels to register, pay a transit toll of up to $2 million per ship in Chinese yuan, and adhere to a designated corridor since vessels began paying on 6 May. The SNSC plan converts that operational practice into a codified security framework.
The same day, Iran declared that no US weapons may transit the Strait of Hormuz (the 33 km chokepoint through which roughly 20% of global oil passes) into regional bases. This is a new operational constraint announced while Abbas Araghchi was simultaneously telling the BRICS meeting in Delhi that Iran had created no obstacles. Iran's Vice President Mokhber, First Vice President Aref, and Foreign Ministry spokesman Baqaei had declared Hormuz Iran's nuclear-equivalent strategic deterrent on 9 May, establishing the doctrinal framework the SNSC plan now operationalises.
The contrast with the US output on 13-14 May is structural. Trump's delegation in Beijing produced a Commerce Department chip clearance and verbal statements on Iran. Iran's SNSC produced written security architecture with an operational component. Tehran has been consistently generating institutional written output since the PGSA registration opened; the US presidential-actions index remains at zero Iran instruments across 76 days. Iran's diplomatic initiative belongs to the written register; America's Iran policy continues to operate in the verbal one.
