🎥 “Iran sees international law as actually being very important.” International legal scholar Maryam Jamshidi joined Drop Site to explain the legal argument behind Iran’s position on the Strait of Hormuz. According to Jamshidi, Tehran has long maintained that the waterway is governed by the older “innocent passage” framework, which gives coastal states greater authority to regulate traffic and charge fees for services, rather than the more restrictive “transit passage” regime. Ryan Grim noted what he described as a contradiction: many countries expect Iran to follow international law while also complying with unilateral U.S. sanctions that Iran argues are themselves illegal. Jamshidi added that draft legislation under consideration in Iran’s Parliament could potentially restrict Hormuz access for states enforcing those sanctions, explaining that Tehran views international law not only as a matter of principle, but also as being in its own strategic interest. @MsJamshidi | @ryangrim