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.
Right, legally, one can’t close the airspace over one’s house by firing a machine gun into the air.
There’s the itty bitty matter of getting one to stop once they start.
@BenHM3 @theleftistlawyer The Strait is narrow enough to be Iranian territorial waters, as well as Oman on the other side. As I understand it Oman signed a treaty that Iran did not sign.
The whole concept of territorial waters, the traditional six-mile limit, came from how far one could shoot a cannon from a shore fort.
International law tends to conform to physical reality since there is no 911 to call when your neighbor pisses on your lawn.
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