{"id":2806,"date":"2026-06-23T23:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2026-06-23T23:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:08:16","slug":"iran-cant-get-any-control-over-the-strait-of-hormuz-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=2806","title":{"rendered":"Iran can’t get ANY control over the Strait of Hormuz\u2014 period"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Whatever else comes out of the negotiations with Iran, the United States cannot <\/em>allow Iran to set any kind of toll or \u201cuser fee\u201d on ships passing the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump couldn\u2019t send any<\/em> worse signal of weakness to the rest of the world, both our allies and our enemies. <\/p>\n

Even the \u201cinsurance\u201d racket (protection money) version would devastate Western shipping, slamming the US economy far more than the disruptions from Iran\u2019s recent temporary<\/em> closure.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just madness<\/em>, abandoning a bedrock American principle going back to when President Thomas Jefferson sent the Navy and Marines to the halls of Tripoli, one vital to our national interests.<\/p>\n

No nation can have any rights or sovereignty whatsoever <\/em>over the Strait of Hormuz, which has always been and must remain exclusively international waters.<\/p>\n

Let this pass, and the Houthis will soon charge for the nearby Bab al Mandab; next someone will hold the Strait of Malacca hostage. <\/p>\n

Heck, Britain and France need cash; why shouldn\u2019t they toll the English Channel? <\/p>\n

Spain and Morocco, the Strait of Gibraltar. <\/p>\n

Freedom of navigation is real<\/em>, longstanding international law, far different from all the piffle modern lefties try to add. <\/p>\n

The hint in Point No. 5 of the Memorandum of Understanding is bad enough: Iran and Oman will \u201cdefine the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz, in discussions with other Persian Gulf Littoral States.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vice President JD Vance seems to think it\u2019s fine<\/em> that those nations \u201cwill figure out a proper security framework for the straits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nuts to that!<\/p>\n

However much the Iranians demand it, just tell them no<\/em>: It\u2019s not like they\u2019ve put anything hard and real on the table, anyway.<\/p>\n

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Even President Barack Obama and his idiots never tried a giveaway on this scale.<\/p>\n

Yet here\u2019s a joint statement from Oman and Iran claiming \u201csovereignty and sovereign rights\u201d over the Strait, supposedly their \u201cterritorial waters,\u201d vowing to work out \u201cthe future administration of navigation\u201d and \u201cthe services that will be provided in this regard and the costs associated with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s already telling all ships to register with its newly created Persian Gulf Strait Authority to ensure safe passage and to sign up to buy Iranian \u201cinsurance\u201d for when the 60-day cease-fire expires.<\/p>\n

This is a Mafia-style protection racket, pure and simple.<\/p>\n

The only \u201csecurity\u201d ships would conceivably need in the Gulf is from Iranian <\/em>attacks, and that\u2019s why we have the US Navy and Marines.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted \u201cno\u00a0country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, if so, why did the Secretary of State allow negotiators to give Iran and Oman a say at all?<\/p>\n

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Has the president gotten his secretaries of Commerce, Energy, Transportation and Treasury to weigh in here?<\/p>\n

Whoever is selling the\u00a0idea in the Oval Offfice\u00a0that it\u2019s OK to even consider sacrificing free passage in the strait\u00a0should be barred from the White House.<\/p>\n

Trump claims Iran wants a peace accord more than the United States.<\/p>\n

Then\u00a0his team should\u00a0act\u00a0<\/em>like it, set the terms \u2014 and ensure the Strait of Hormuz remains as open and free as it\u2019s always been.<\/p>\n

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