Friday, July 10 saw the UN shipping agency declare that countries should reject Iranian efforts to impose sovereignty on the Strait of Hormuz.
The London-based International Maritime Organization (IMO) also condemned Tehran’s “unilateral decision” to create a body (the so-called Persian Gulf Strait Authority) for controlling traffic through the waterway.
According to the text of a non-binding decision, the IMO Council “strongly condemned” Iran’s decision to
establish an entity purporting to control traffic through the strait.
Member states were requested to not recognise “Iran’s claim of sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.” The policy advice came against the backdrop of mutually hostile U.S.-Iranian military strikes.
