[Peace-discuss] Legal Mist Stokes US-Iran Tensions in Strait

[LAURIE SOLOMON]

"What a revolting predicament they have gotten us into now" to quote or
paraphrase some folk philosopher of comedy.

 

Legal Mist Stokes US-Iran Tensions in Strait
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011508M.shtml

Kaveh L. Afrasiabi reports for the Asia Times: "Tension spiked markedly last
week when Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) speedboats were involved
in an 'incident' with three US Navy vessels, which claimed they were
international waters. Yet there is no 'international water' in the Strait of
Hormuz, straddled between the territorial waters of Iran and Oman."

 

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