Sheryl Weikal1d ago

You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, that's true!

There's just one problem.

The US never ratified that treaty.

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We want the ability to control our own waterways, including through things like the Jones Act that would arguably violate that treaty.

So...we never signed it.

So now we're angry with Iran for violating a treaty neither of us is a party to.

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Show threadENIGMATICO  1d ago
@theleftistlawyer I don't even think they closed it, they're just bombing any ships that come in and out of it that are not from a country they like or are affiliated with the US.