Managing Strait of Hormuz is Iran’s ‘definitive’ policy: MP
A senior member of the Iranian parliament says the country is determined to exert its control over shipping in the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Hassan Qashqavi, a member of parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said in remarks published on Sunday that Iran prefers to manage Hormuz through cooperation with regional countries, especially Oman.
“Our country's definitive and official position is that henceforth, the management of the Strait of Hormuz will be conducted under Iranian arrangements,” Qashqavi told Iranian state TV.
The lawmaker, who has served for decades as a diplomat in the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said that the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea stipulates that in times of war, coastal states have the right to take measures to ensure safe passage and maintain their security in the seas.
“What Iran is doing in the Strait of Hormuz is precisely in accordance with international law,” he said, while describing US attacks on Iran in recent weeks over disputes regarding Hormuz as a “violation of the peremptory norms of the UN Charter and an infringement on the sovereignty of nations.”
Qashqavi rejected US efforts to pressure Oman to open a new corridor for shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, saying Oman has agreed to consider Iran’s reservations about the security of the Sea of Oman under an agreement it has signed with Iran in 1975.
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“The maritime zones of Iran and Oman overlap in certain areas. Under such circumstances, it is not possible to consider a portion of these zones as exclusively belonging to Oman through a simple demarcation line. Such an interpretation by the United States lacks any legal basis,” he said.
The remarks came after an exchange of fire between Iran and the US in the Persian Gulf, which occurred after Iran said the US had violated the terms of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the two countries last month by forcing ships to pass through illegal routes in Hormuz.
Under Article 5 of the MoU, Iran has the exclusive right to manage shipping routes in the Strait of Hormuz for a period of 60 days with the purpose of restoring transit in the waterway to levels that existed before the start of the US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran in late February.
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