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by belorn 33 days ago
Let say Iran charge 2 million per ship and US boards and takes control over all ships leaving Iran. Everybody complains but understands.

What happens at that point? Can shipping companies manage to pay both US and Iran? Will companies and nations complain to the international court, and will UN step in and prevent either side from doing this? As noted the US did this already in south America and nothing happened, and Iran has already started extracting a toll.

I would not work on a ship going anywhere near that area, and I wonder if investors are that willing to put money on that kind of venture. That leaves nations that are dependent on exports to put military personal on ships (like what Russia is doing), but will that be enough to discourage either US or Iran?

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>US boards and takes control over all ships leaving Iran.

They do that already. US destroyers have shot round into the engine room of many Iranian oil tankers. Iranian oil is not getting trough.