It’s time for Canada , the Europeans, the Arab nations and even China to stand up to Iran on the Strait of Hormuz.
If Iran gets away with declaring the Strait of Hormuz as its own waterway, with passage subject to its control, the implications for world trade through other similar international waterways around the globe would be calamitous!
What about the East China Sea? The Strait of Gibraltar? The Strait of Malacca? The Bosphorous Strait? The Danish Sea?
All to be “privatized”? Tolled? Or even passage-restricted?
That must not happen … and, despite whatever concerns, frustrations other world nations ( not just Western democracies) feel about Trump, the US, the Iran conflict) it’s time for them to step up, step in and back the American stance that Iran MUST NOT be allowed to privatize the Strait of Hormuz.
Too many nations … ironically, the US is among the LEAST of them … depend on free passage for their resources/goods through the Strait.
The “world” should now get involved: let Iran know their declared attempts to control/toll the Strait cannot and will not be allowed to stand.
No ifs, buts or compromises!
And if Canada, the European nations and other powers need to send their navies, military contingents to the Strait to re-open snd keep open Hormuz, so be it.
Even if it means supporting a stand taken by Donald Trump!
Harv Oberfeld
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