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.
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.
@NMBA @theleftistlawyerd So I guess it is up to Canada to invade the US and depose the illegal government that has been claiming legitimacy the last eighteen months.
Elbows up!
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.
>The US never ratified that treaty.
They even don't care shit about treaties they ratified, like e.g. "CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT"
cf.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_in_the_United_States#Domestic_torture_in_modern_times
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I thought there were carve outs about wartime you can deny access to enemy shipping
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