<![CDATA[You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait.]]>You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, that's true!

There's just one problem.

The US never ratified that treaty.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/98bb0c78-3613-48ae-baae-c2e101f89a53/you-re-probably-hearing-a-lot-from-marco-rubio-and-the-us-state-department-about-international-law-and-the-strait-of-hormuz-and-that-iran-cannot-legally-close-the-strait.RSS for NodeWed, 08 Apr 2026 13:28:22 GMTFri, 03 Apr 2026 14:47:48 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:31:18 GMT]]>@rapsneezy @theleftistlawyer
> blockading Cuba?
Partially. Russian vessels vetted by Anatoly Kolodkin can pass freely. Last one docked at Matanzas pier past Tuesday, iirc.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/ap/users/115995911458254842/statuses/116348569425703923https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/ap/users/115995911458254842/statuses/116348569425703923Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:31:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:42:53 GMT]]>@theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social @tkissing@mastodon.social oh my bad lol

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hexokina.se/notes/akny5i5dafri008phttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hexokina.se/notes/akny5i5dafri008pSat, 04 Apr 2026 13:42:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:52:20 GMT]]>@ahltorp @theleftistlawyer yes, it’s an example of a case by a political philosopher who is well known for being provocative and confrontational. Nothing to do with my original comment though. When there is evidence, people can use any label they like, It also doesn’t make it fact. https://www.britannica.com/topic/antisemitism/Nazi-antisemitism-and-the-Holocaust

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116056513631316930/statuses/116344877253863545https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116056513631316930/statuses/116344877253863545Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:52:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:53:24 GMT]]>@xeno @theleftistlawyer The "random Internet person" is Francis 'Frank' Wilhoit, a composer usually going by Frank Wilhoit. "That guy" was Francis Marion 'Frank' Wilhoit, a political scientist going by Francis M. Wilhoit. So based on the names these people used in their publish work, I did attribute correctly 🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/tkissing/statuses/116344645489575208https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/tkissing/statuses/116344645489575208Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:53:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:31:10 GMT]]>@theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social @tkissing@mastodon.social 10/10 quote reference but just a note that that quote is actually from a random internet person who happened to share a last name with that guy

still a great quote

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hexokina.se/notes/akn80i3yafri0077https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hexokina.se/notes/akn80i3yafri0077Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:31:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:42:46 GMT]]>@NineStonesClose @theleftistlawyer Example: https://tldr.nettime.org/@rasmusfleischer/116255229245842899

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/ahltorp/statuses/116342952215097039https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/ahltorp/statuses/116342952215097039Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:42:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:38:46 GMT]]>@NineStonesClose @theleftistlawyer What I wrote was that it’s a ”classic antisemitic propaganda trope”. It’s dangerously close to what some people are saying that’s actually antisemitic, so please tread carefully.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/ahltorp/statuses/116342936458616368https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/ahltorp/statuses/116342936458616368Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:38:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:35:16 GMT]]>@ahltorp @theleftistlawyer antisemitism is often used as an excuse by the uneducated and the politicians to shout down anything said these days against the current genocidal expansionist Israeli state. You maybe need to read some books about what antisemitism actually means.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116056513631316930/statuses/116342922679911268https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116056513631316930/statuses/116342922679911268Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:35:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:14:58 GMT]]>@NineStonesClose @theleftistlawyer If you mean ”Israel controls the US”, that’s a classic antisemitic propaganda trope. If you mean ”Trump does what the last person he spoke to said”, that’s probably true.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/ahltorp/statuses/116342842856408907https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/ahltorp/statuses/116342842856408907Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:14:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:27:54 GMT]]>@BenHM3 @theleftistlawyer The Strait is narrow enough to be Iranian territorial waters, as well as Oman on the other side. As I understand it Oman signed a treaty that Iran did not sign.

The whole concept of territorial waters, the traditional six-mile limit, came from how far one could shoot a cannon from a shore fort.

International law tends to conform to physical reality since there is no 911 to call when your neighbor pisses on your lawn.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://noc.social/users/mike805/statuses/116342657799495494https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://noc.social/users/mike805/statuses/116342657799495494Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:27:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:06:20 GMT]]>@theleftistlawyer For those that are interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Infoseepage/statuses/116342337057493090https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Infoseepage/statuses/116342337057493090Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:06:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:03:56 GMT]]>@theleftistlawyer And neither did Iran or Israel. Israel never even signed.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Infoseepage/statuses/116342327631663606https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Infoseepage/statuses/116342327631663606Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:03:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:59:03 GMT]]>@theleftistlawyer "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - Frank Wilhoit

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/tkissing/statuses/116342308430540902https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/tkissing/statuses/116342308430540902Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:59:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:01:00 GMT]]>@theleftistlawyer
It also withdrew pre-emptively from the International Criminal Court in 2002 when George W. Bush decided it was okay to torture Iraqi prisoners of war.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://libretooth.gr/users/dougiec3/statuses/116342080195178944https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://libretooth.gr/users/dougiec3/statuses/116342080195178944Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:01:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:01:22 GMT]]>@NMBA @theleftistlawyerd So I guess it is up to Canada to invade the US and depose the illegal government that has been claiming legitimacy the last eighteen months.

Elbows up!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/the_wub/statuses/116341845678538967https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/the_wub/statuses/116341845678538967Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:01:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:00:29 GMT]]>@theleftistlawyer the USA could seek redress at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), if it had not withdrawn from ICJ compulsory jurisdiction in 1986

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/clayfoot/statuses/116341842191095377https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/clayfoot/statuses/116341842191095377Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:00:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:51:17 GMT]]>@theleftistlawyer the government of the USA of A making up shit as they go along, shoot from the hip, yee haw … dumbasses … doesn’t Israel tell the USA what to do now anyway?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116056513631316930/statuses/116341806032684820https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116056513631316930/statuses/116341806032684820Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:51:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:32:34 GMT]]>@theleftistlawyer not just one problem: US agression of Iran is also unlawful under international law. The US does not care a shit on international law, in general. That’s not a problem, is a modus operandi.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/pomubieng/statuses/116341732450440569https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/pomubieng/statuses/116341732450440569Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:32:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:19:07 GMT]]>@theleftistlawyer

Right, legally, one can’t close the airspace over one’s house by firing a machine gun into the air.

There’s the itty bitty matter of getting one to stop once they start.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://saint-paul.us/ap/users/115736849857800684/statuses/116341679565203101https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://saint-paul.us/ap/users/115736849857800684/statuses/116341679565203101Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:19:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:01:32 GMT]]>@theleftistlawyer @Binder Someone should tell Rubio that the U.S. can’t legally be attacking Iran, and see how that goes over.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/reay/statuses/116341610417821569https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/reay/statuses/116341610417821569Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:01:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:30:26 GMT]]>@theleftistlawyer

Isn't the USA blockading Cuba?

Venezuela?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116249540362625857/statuses/116341488092272662https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116249540362625857/statuses/116341488092272662Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:30:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:07:51 GMT]]>@theleftistlawyer Why would Iran suddenly "close" the Stait of Hormuz? It's so unfair.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/BLTpizza/statuses/116341399290175875https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/BLTpizza/statuses/116341399290175875Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:07:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:53:39 GMT]]>@theleftistlawyer
Any country that has failed to sign up to the International Criminal Court should have no standing in international law.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/NMBA/statuses/116341343487191230https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/NMBA/statuses/116341343487191230Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:53:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:47:50 GMT]]>We want the ability to control our own waterways, including through things like the Jones Act that would arguably violate that treaty.

So...we never signed it.

So now we're angry with Iran for violating a treaty neither of us is a party to.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/theleftistlawyer/statuses/116341320597520026https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/theleftistlawyer/statuses/116341320597520026Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:47:50 GMT