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The Strait of Hormuz Should Not Require a Maritime Force to Police It
(The National-UAE) Editorial - Over nearly two months since the U.S.-Israel war on Iran began, Tehran has held both global shipping and the world economy to ransom. Using its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz as a bargaining chip in the ongoing negotiations with Washington has made a mockery of international law and the very idea of free navigation. This cannot be allowed to pass. Iran must know that in trying to use its control over the strait as leverage to extract concessions from the international community, it has only further isolated itself diplomatically from the rest of the world. The Iranian regime needs to understand that free, unrestricted and toll-free passage for all commercial vessels is a baseline requirement of international law and civilized order - not a bargaining chip.