Iran Rejects IMO Proposal for Safe Maritime Corridor -- WSJ

Dow Jones04-15

By Elvan Kivilcim

Iran said it had rejected a proposal adopted by the United Nations' International Maritime Organization that called for a safe maritime corridor in the Strait of Hormuz to evacuate some 20,000 sailors and roughly 2,000 ships stuck in the Persian Gulf.

Iran's deputy permanent representative of the ports and maritime organization to the IMO said that the proposal was "legally groundless and politically motivated" because it aims to hold the Islamic Republic responsible for the current situation in the vital waterway, according to the country's state broadcaster Press TV. Tehran has "exercised its inherent right of self-defense" against the U.S.-Israeli attacks and any legal assessment of the maritime consequences that doesn't take this into account, is "incomplete and legally flawed," Pouria Kolivand added.

The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Singapore, Japan and Panama submitted the proposal about a month ago, before the cease-fire and ahead of the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports. Adopting it, the IMO said that Tehran must refrain from any actions aimed at "closing, obstructing or interfering with international navigation" through the strait. The Secretary-General of the IMO, Arsenio Dominguez, said last week that he was working to implement an appropriate mechanism to ensure the safe transit of ships through the chokepoint.

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