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.
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