RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Europe is likely to follow Japan in signing up for Iran's pioneering new maritime regime.To qualify for passage through Hormuz, they cannot be caught assisting in any way the U.S. or Israeli war efforts against Iran or its proxies.Will Europe choose the yuan oil payments or the $2m toll? ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Europe is likely to follow Japan in signing up for Iran's pioneering new maritime regime.To qualify for passage through Hormuz, they cannot be caught assisting in any way the U.S. or Israeli war efforts against Iran or its proxies.Will Europe choose the yuan oil payments or the $2m toll? ...

Europe is likely to follow Japan in signing up for Iran's pioneering new maritime regime.To qualify for passage through Hormuz, they cannot be caught assisting in any way the U.S. or Israeli war efforts against Iran or its proxies.Will Europe choose the yuan oil payments or the $2m toll?Shadow (@ShadowDrunken):The B1 avoided every European country but sent right through Israel,Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to bomb Iran. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Iran has not been very aggressive with their own military. With their proxies yes, but not with their own. Even though they knew in theory they could control Hormuz now, they were unlikely to take the initiative to do so until triggered by existential necessity. What they are doing by asserting such strong coastal state rights is quite the pioneering experiment that would have gone over far more badly in the maritime world had they themselves initiated war to conduct it.Their cont ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Iran has not been very aggressive with their own military. With their proxies yes, but not with their own. Even though they knew in theory they could control Hormuz now, they were unlikely to take the initiative to do so until triggered by existential necessity. What they are doing by asserting such strong coastal state rights is quite the pioneering experiment that would have gone over far more badly in the maritime world had they themselves initiated war to conduct it.Their cont ...