Blackmail , Protection money
In this case it's land based piracy.
I have asked before, why doesn’t Dubai/Oman go up on the peninsula where there are areas that are less than a mile wide and dig a new canal from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and bypass the Straits? No locks needed just cut some rock.
That would give an alternate transverse path through safer waters and de-nut Iran trying to control the Straits, not to mention income. It would all be in territorial water. Ships would hug the coast all the way up and back out into the Gulf of Oman.
Is Trump just going to standby and let Iran profit from these fees so as to increase their ability to buy weapons?
“He also said Tehran had received indications that the United States was prepared to return to understandings outlined in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in June.”
Then the MoU will be signed, and the peace will settle. Then about three weeks later the Iranians will violate it and Trump will start bombing again, with another 60 days for the war powers act.
Who gives a shit. Let the other countries find or build new routes.
How much did Iran charge previously?
SUCH A MOVE WILL CREATE A WORLD WIDE ISSUE WITH “OPEN SHIPPING INTERNATIONAL WATERS”
CANNOT LET THIS HAPPEN
Why is Iran not being sued for every ship that it sinks?
This is a non starter.
It’s a violation of international treaties. The Straits of Hormuz are an international waterway. It is illegal to charge tolls to go through it.
and just how is Iran going to enforce all this, with two camels and a donkey
The service they provide is not blowing you up.
If they pay them in lead that way the can make fishing anchors they don’t have much else to eat.
Iran won
Move oil to the Red Sea via Saudi pipelines. Build more pipelines. Napalm any Houthi who even shows his retarded face on any beach. Sideline Iran and their power dissapates.
And pigs could fly.