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.

@theleftistlawyer the USA could seek redress at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), if it had not withdrawn from ICJ compulsory jurisdiction in 1986