How does anyone just open a strait that has mines in it in 2 weeks?

> How does anyone just open a strait that has mines in it in 2 weeks?

The strait has been open for weeks for friendly countries' ships that pay Iran $2M per passage through their "toll booth", an unmined route through Iranian territorial waters.

This ceasefire appears legitimize that situation. If it holds, Iran is about to make huge amounts of money on top of sanctions relief.

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tristanj 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The strait is barely mined, at most a few dozen mines were placed. Multiple ships have transited through in Omani waters since the start of the conflict. So far none have been struck by mines.

The threat why boats do not cross are Iranian missiles / drones striking ships attempting to pass thru, without paying a protection fee. It's basically a terrorism protection fee.

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vincnetas 5 hours ago | parent [-]

does policemen shooting at you when you don't listen to his orders is considered terorism? i would say its just enforcing tax collection.

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tristanj 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Iran doesn't have legal control over the entire strait; approx half of the strait is Iranian territorial waters and the other half is Omani territorial waters.

For Iran's toll system to work, they would need to strike at ships sailing in Omani territorial waters, which is an act of war.

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8note 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

international law doesnt actually exist. the strait is close enough to irans borders such that they can enforce police activity, so its theirs.

the alternative is that oman and many others can also do the same thing, and the lot of states interested in trade in the area need to get together an negotiate a setup that everyone can agree to

	▲	kepeko 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		"international law doesnt actually exist." Wow that's an interesting way to put it.

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vincnetas 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

but iran has physical control. lets call it a buffer zone for toll collection. And funny that you mention act of war like it was(would be) caused by iran.

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tristanj 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Completely untrue. Iran has no legal rights to Omani waters, and has no physical control over them either, since Iran doesn't have a navy.

	▲	vincnetas 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		they have drones though and they are quite physical.

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5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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