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Iran has begun charging for passage through the Strait of Hormuz by political alignment. China, named a friendly country, is offered a discount. Everyone outside the friendly list pays full mandatory fees and risks attack for using any route Iran does not authorize. The world's most important oil ch
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Russia over Europe and Iran in the Strait of Hormuz are running one coercion method: pressure held below the level that would force a collective response, routed through an instrument the defender has no legal authority to strike.
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Iran signed the Geneva MoU on June 19. Four days later, it attacked vessels using the International Maritime Organization's sanctioned alternative corridor along the Oman coast. The enforcement phase of Iran's Hormuz management claim had already begun before the diplomatic ink dried.