Iran Turned Its Hormuz Paperwork Into A Sanctions Problem
Iran's Hormuz paperwork now asks insurers and banks whether a ship bought sanctioned safe passage.
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Bureau: Jerusalem
Iran's Hormuz paperwork now asks insurers and banks whether a ship bought sanctioned safe passage.
Israel stopped the flotilla near Cyprus, and the geography now matters as much as the blockade.
A ship does not need a Western insurer to buy Iran's safe-passage paper for the insurer to have to ask about it.
Iran can write Hormuz forms all day, but joint Strait control still needs an Omani sentence that has not appeared.
The Gaza flotilla story starts with the Marmaris departure record, not only the Cyprus interception footage.