Iran Is Not Blocking the Strait of Hormuz. It's Running a Toll Booth

OutOfHere

Firstly, Iran has no authority to collect toll in international waters. Imagine if a dozen other countries started using its approach of deploying configurable naval mines in international waters to collect tolls outside their territory. Secondly, Iran definitely is blocking ships of countries that it considers hostile to Iran, with no choice of a toll for them. Thirdly, Iran is funding terrorists in Yemen, Iraq, and Lebanon.

icegreentea2

There's other news floating around from Citrini saying similar things - the actual substack post (behind a paywall https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/strait-of-hormuz-a-citrini... ), and some news coverage - https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/06/wall-street-firm-sends-analy... Being able to put up toll booths on the Strait is another knife to the body of international law and the good old rules based order.

Snoozus

Is this a human writing in the style of LLMs? The exemption is diplomatic, not commercial. The Yuan Dimension I hate it.