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No. The Persian Gulf.

Iran’s legal position regarding the Strait of Hormuz rests on a firm and multi-layered foundation in international law that has been consistently articulated, formally recorded, and never relinquished. First, the applicable treaty framework does not support the imposition of the “transit passage” regime on Iran. The UNCLOS introduced transit passage as a novel legal construct, granting expansive rights—including overflight and submerged navigation—to foreign military assets. However, Iran never ratified UNCLOS and explicitly rejected this regime upon signature. Under general principles of treaty law, a state cannot be bound by provisions of a treaty it has not ratified, particularly where it has expressly objected to those provisions at the time of signature. This position is reinforced by the doctrine of the persistent objector. Even if one assumes, arguendo, that transit passage has evolved into customary international law, Iran has consistently and openly rejected its applicability. As such, it is not bound by that rule. Second, in the absence of a universally binding transit passage regime, the governing law reverts to earlier treaty law and customary principles, most notably the 1958 Geneva Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone. Both Iran and key user states such as the United States are not parties to UNCLOS, creating a legal vacuum in which reliance on earlier treaty regimes is not only appropriate but necessary. Under this framework, the right of passage through territorial seas is not unlimited. It is conditioned on innocent passage, a well-established rule allowing coastal states to regulate navigation to protect their security and public order. Crucially, innocent passage excludes activities that threaten the coastal state, including military operations, intelligence gathering, and acts connected to hostile conduct. Third, the geographic reality of the Strait of Hormuz strengthens Iran’s legal position. The navigable channels lie entirely within the overlapping territorial seas of Iran and Oman. This is not a high seas corridor but a maritime space subject to coastal sovereignty, albeit qualified by navigational rights. That sovereignty carries with it the right to adopt and enforce laws necessary to safeguard national security. Fourth, even under UNCLOS itself, the regime of non-suspendable innocent passage remains a legally recognized alternative in certain straits. This regime is more restrictive than transit passage and explicitly allows the coastal state to take necessary steps to prevent passage that is not innocent. Iran’s interpretation is therefore not a legal aberration, but a plausible reading grounded in existing law. Fifth, and most critically in the present context, the law of armed conflict and the UN Charter fundamentally alter the legal landscape. Following an unlawful use of force against it, Iran is entitled to invoke its inherent right of self-defense. In such circumstances, the legal characterization of passage cannot be divorced from the realities of hostilities. Vessels and aircraft associated with belligerent states—or facilitating military operations—cannot claim protected navigational rights while simultaneously contributing to acts of aggression. International law has never required a state to permit its own territorial sea to be used as a conduit for hostile operations. On the contrary, the right of self-defense permits proportionate measures to prevent such exploitation. Conditioning passage on neutrality and non-hostility is therefore not only lawful but necessary to uphold the integrity of that right. Finally, the conduct of other states further undermines any claim that Iran’s position is exceptional. The United States itself is not a party to UNCLOS yet selectively invokes its provisions as customary law when convenient.

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Donald Trump’s decisive action in Iran has likely saved the world from nuclear war. Democrats - Clinton, Obama, and the AutoPen Fool - all had the same intel regarding the imminent nuclear weapon capabilities of the terrorist regime. Trump had the balls to DO SOMETHING.

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Good analysis of the official version. However, enough indicators that this was a cover up for a larger Special Forces operation gone wrong.

An injured American pilot climbed 7,000 feet around a mountain in Iran before reaching an evacuation point and being rescued by US special forces in a high-risk mission, Senator Dave McCormick told Fox News Sunday.

To the Commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC): Today, few doubt that little remains of the Velayat-e Faqih dictatorship but a half-dead body. As a result of five decades of warmongering and crimes, you are the real decision-makers of this collapsing system. Your misguided regional policies and apocalyptic madness have brought the theater of war to Iran. Because you used it not for our people but instead militarized it, our country’s economic infrastructure is now in the crosshairs of two powers that have been roaming Iran’s skies for weeks. This infrastructure was built with the national wealth of Iran and is vital for the country’s reconstruction. The corrupt regime of the Islamic Republic is on its way out. Your choice is not between survival and collapse; it is about how you collapse. The end of the current path is the delivery of a scorched earth to the Iranian nation following your inevitable downfall. For the sake of Iran, for yourselves, and for your children, abandon this adventurism and warmongering. Do not leave Iran more bloodstained and wounded than it already is. Allow the country’s infrastructure to be preserved for the Iranian nation. Stop your crimes. Step down from power.

If Iran doesn't open the Strait by Tuesday… what will Trump do?!🤔

BREAKING: The IRGC reportedly tried to use a Red Crescent vehicle as a Trojan horse to reach the downed U.S. pilot—but U.S. jets saw through it and destroyed the vehicle.

This is ridiculous cope. If the Iran regime defeated a US special forces raid to capture their uranium, they would publicise it everywhere. They would crow about it from the rooftops. Instead they are … silent?