Foreign Warships Will Need Iran's Permission to Pass through Strait of Horm

[Secur]

Here are some basic info...

- Strait of Hormuz - ESSENTIAL INFORMATION

If 'innocent passage' is not recognized, any state can seize passage and hold other states hostage, militarily and economically. You can do further research using keywords 'international law passage waterway'.

Oh upholder of international law ! When has your own country respected any international law ?

 

[OrionHunter]

Here's a map of the Strait of Hormuz. Note the maritime boundary between Iran and Oman. Ships can very well operate within the notified sea lane within Oman territorial waters. Iran has no locus standii here and therefore cannot stops ships if they operating outside its territorial waters.

I wonder under what rules or law can Iran stop any traffic, military or otherwise through the straits if the Oman Sea Lanes are being used? There are none and therefore Iran cannot close the straits to shipping. Period!

 

[DrSomnath999]

& what if they dont take permission ?

 

[PERSIAN GOD KING]

& what if they dont take permission ?

Lets wait and see i guess.

 

[DrSomnath999]

Lets wait and see i guess.

well i would keep my finger crossed

 

[PERSIAN GOD KING]

well i would keep my finger crossed

No that does not help, experience has shown me that.

 

[shuntmaster]

Can't the UN or one the country make a canal, and charge the passage like the Panama Canal. It will solve a lot of problem.

I think there already exists pipelines across UAE & Oman from East coast to west coast which bypass straight of Hormuz.

New Oil Pipeline To Detour Hormuz
DEBKA-Net Weekly reports that Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Oman and Yemen have launched a vast Trans-Arabia Oil Pipeline project. The overland pipeline will bypass the Straits of Hormuz, ending Iran’s strategic control of the Persian Gulf waterways.

The first stage of the Trans-Arabia pipeline will link Saudi Aramco oil terminal at Ras Tannura on Persian Gulf, Yemen’s Mukallah oil port on Gulf of Aden, UAE port of Al Fujairah on Arabian Sea, Oman’s port of Muscat, and Saudi Red Sea port of Yanbu. The construction will start in November 2007. Saudi Arabia and other participating members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will provide the $6 billion investment required to complete the first stage.

Saudi Arabia will provide a new 35,000-strong security force to protect the pipeline against terrorist and foreign attacks. The first 5,000 recruits are reportedly in training.

DEBKA-Net Weekly reports that in the second stage, the Trans-Arabia pipeline will carry South Iraqi oil crossing the Iraqi desert directly into Saudi Arabia, bypassing Shatt Al-Arab. The construction of this stage will start in early 2009. Iran, on its part, has started negotiations with the current Iraqi government to build a pipeline that would carry 200,000 barrels a day of Iraqi crude refineries in Iran.

DEBKA-Net Weekly reports that Kuwait and Qatar are the two GCC members that will not participate in the project. Both countries are involved in building a gas pipeline network which has highest priority for them.

The five pipeline branches are planned as follow:

Pipeline #1: Ras Tannuna on Saudi eastern coast to Al Fujairah in UAE, also collecting crude from Abu Dhabi’s Habashan oil fields. The work will start in November. It will be a 48-inch pipeline running for 350 kilometer with a capacity of 1.5 million bpd.
Pipeline #2: Linking Ras Tannuna to Muscat, Oman.
Pipeline #3: Linking Ras Tannuna through Hadhramouth fields and onto Mukalla port in Yemen’s Gulf of Aden.
Pipeline #4: Linking Ras Tannuna-UAE pipeline onto Mukalla port in Yemen.
Pipeline #5: Linking Ras Tannuna to Saudi’s Red Sea port of Yanbu. This line will bypass two older ones in the same area.

For security reasons, large sections of the pipeline will be built underground. The participating countries will also add 4 million bpd to their total crude production.

 

[PERSIAN GOD KING]

^^

If Iran is threatened we will blow the crap out of all their pipelines.

 

[DrSomnath999]

No that does not help, experience has shown me that.

now what experience

 

[PERSIAN GOD KING]

now what experience

When I was hoping to win the lottery

 

[DV RULES]

^^

If Iran is threatened we will blow the crap out of all their pipelines.

To be some constructive didn't require so much efforts and mind. Bush was right when said Iran "Axis of Evil". Iran will destabilize whole region with their illegal wish of nuclear power.

 

[PERSIAN GOD KING]

EDITEDDDDDDDDDD

 

[Al Bhatti]

^^

I think you're flying false flag, you just another wahabi in disguise.

Here you go again.

 

[PERSIAN GOD KING]

Here you go again.

You're pakistani anyway, why you being annoyed at my comment anyway.

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Here you go again.

You're pakistani anyway, why you being annoyed at my comment anyway.

 

[DV RULES]

^^

I think you're flying false flag, you just another wahabi in disguise.

Dude, just come out for a while from Wahabism, Shi'ism or Suni'ism and think neutrally, being a Iranian i can understand what you are feeling and thinking but it is all a illusion designed and injected by Iranian government. When there is opposition then it doesn't means that they are wrong but need to analyze remarks of opposition.

Emotions no place in world politics so do in common discussion. Iran's current provocation will not result a progressive and constructive way of solution. Region is trying to come out from US military presence and you intelligent inviting more and more so think what IQ holders sit in supreme council of Iran and to whom their help through their brilliant decisions?

There are options better to solve current issue of sanctions over Iran.