He said that the tariff is $1 per barrel of oil, adding that empty tankers can pass freely. “Once the email arrives and Iran completes its assessment, vessels are given a few seconds to pay in Bitcoin, ensuring they can’t be traced or confiscated due to sanctions,” Hosseini added.
Technically it still is a crime since charging money for access to navigable waters is a violation of international law.
What about Panama Canal, Suez canal, St Lawrence Seaway? Is it fine to charge money for those waters?
They’re not natural waterways, somebody had to make them so the law doesn’t apply. Same for Great Lakes Waterway.
Besides, international law only applies to you if you agree to it. Both US and Iran do not agree with this.
US also has a law that say US can use military force against the ICC if any US citizen is arrested by the ICC.
That’s not true. Customary international law also applies to states, that are not themselves members of a treaty. In the case of international maritime war and international humanitarian laws this is widely accepted as such.
Maybe that used to be the case but the USA does it different
Which law?
This would be the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). It’s interesting that the US is among the nations that have never ratified the treaty.
Also, Denmark has a long 500+ year history of charging ships to transit in and out of the Baltic Sea, so this really isn’t a new concept (Sound Tolls).
I thought they meant this law but wasn’t sure. That treaty has not been ratified by the US, Pissrael and most importantly, Iran! So it doesn’t apply and we are talking about a war where neither the invading nations nor the victim nation has signed it.
https://www.simplelaw.blog/p/the-strait-of-hormuz-a-3-minute-international
There used to be hundreds of cases of charges for transit. Led to wars too.
It’s not like international law protected them in the first place.