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> It’s territorial waters belonging to Iran and Oman. The trick is that it's still an 'international strait', or a segment of water that forms the only connec
by Majromax 5mo ago
> It’s territorial waters belonging to Iran and Oman.
The trick is that it's still an 'international strait', or a segment of water that forms the only connection between two areas of high seas -- in this case the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. The principle of freedom of navigation establishes that innocent traffic (civilian traffic, and even warships in peacetime) have a right to use the strait to go from one body of international water to the other.
Iran may claim that it doesn't have to abide by that right, but international law is never self-executing. One question to be resolved by this war is whether Iran will ultimately recognize the right to navigation in any settlement (and then choose to abide by said settlement).
- irishcoffee 5mo agoInternational law isn’t worth the time someone spent to write the words. It means approximately nothing. OPEC is a cartel, for example.
- watwut 5mo agoOPEC is not against international law.
- ebbi 5mo agoInternational Law now has no value when the America-Israel alliance has been skirting said laws to commit mass atrocities in recent history.
- AuthAuth 5mo agointernational law is an agreement between both parties.
- ebbi 5mo agoI think that agreement broke when the US illegally bombed Iran, including a girls' school, and killed their leader.
- AuthAuth 5mo agoI'm not making the case they should follow international law you are.
- ebbi 5mo agoI'm not, either.
- AuthAuth 5mo agoYou're saying international law has no value to iran because the US and Isreal have no violated it. Im saying Iran commited to violating international law long ago and thus in a war with Iran no one would expect international law to be followed by either party. Sounds like you agree with the last part but maybe disagree with the first claim?
- ebbi 5mo agoAmerica violated international law many times, from well before. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib, etc etc etc But when talking about international law in this instance, America started the aggression, which was a breach of International Law itself, so why should Iran abide by it?
- anigbrowl 5mo agoAs the nation that was attacked first, They have an unimpeachable argument for wanting to defend the rest of their territorial waters. The ludicrously escalatory rhetoric from the US President has turned this into an existential conflict. I can't take finger-wagging against Iran seriously to be honest, the idea that western powers would scrupulously adhere to international mores if subjected to a full-on kinetic attack by another nation state is absurd on its face.
- Jensson 5mo ago> They have an unimpeachable argument for wanting to defend the rest of their territorial waters They are shooting down neutral tankers outside of their territorial water, so stop with the bullshit. If they only shot ships in their own waters traffic in Hormuz would already have returned to normal. > the idea that western powers would scrupulously adhere to international mores if subjected to a full-on kinetic attack by another nation state is absurd on its face. We know they are, we have Ukraine as an example they don't start attacking neutral nations civilian vessels just because Russia attacked them. Only evil regimes do that, you don't "defend yourself" by committing terrorism against innocent neutral country ships that aren't shipping anything related to the country you are fighting. There is no reason at all for Iran to start shooting ad Indian ships just because USA attacked Iran, no western nation would defend themselves that way, many western nations has been attacked and conquered in history so we know how they act.
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- anigbrowl 5mo agoUkraine doesn't have a strategic choke point that gives them asymmetric economic leverage. Imagine that Brazil's and the world's economy was intrinsically linked to exports from the Mediterranean region, and China decided to launch a full-on war against Spain in concert with Belgium. What do you think Spain would do, sit there and suffer or make use of its geography? How do you think Spain came to be a powerful nation in the first place? > evil GMAFB, the US launched this war in a joint effort with Israel and smoked a school full of children on the very first day. Iran is pursuing its strategic interests by exploiting its geography and inflicting pain on countries on the other side of the Persian gulf who chose to ally themselves with the US and allow the US to bases from which to launch war.
- lesuorac 5mo ago> The principle of freedom of navigation establishes that innocent traffic "freedom of navigation" seems to be from UNCLUS no? So why should a country (Iran) that didn't ratify UNCLUS care about the terms it binds it's signatories to?