Iran approves closure of Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil and gas route
www.usatoday.com
The Iranian parliament backed a move to close a major oil and gas route, after American airstrikes on its nuclear sites.
  • 0x0@lemmy.zip
    6·
    28 days ago

    Geopoitically, the strait of Hormuz is sided by Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Oman.
    Iran can’t just close the strait without implicating the others.

    • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
      7·
      28 days ago

      I disagree, they can close the straight because missles.

      However 100% of Iranian oil goes through that straight so what they are doing is reminding us not to blow up Khargg island.

      • 0x0@lemmy.zip
        2·
        28 days ago

        There are no international waters in the “straight” (even.if there were), it would implicate other countries so, no, they can’t just close it without implicating others.

    • MrMakabar@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      28 days ago

      Also closing it means Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain have a massive shipping problem, which would really threaten those countries in such a massive way, that it could be seen as an attack on them. Not to mention that oil is shipped to countries all around the world. Basically everybody who is not an oil exporter is going to hate them for doing it.

      Also Iran needs to ship oil via the straight as well. Starting some conflict around it, would really hurt their income.