On the Legality and Policy Ramifications of High Seas Seizures of Foreign Merchant Vessels for Violating U.S. Sanctions

Iran’s use of warships to deliver fuel and arms to Venezuela, a move designed to deter U.S. intervention in the transfer, represents a major escalation in the United States’s conflicts with both states. Thus far, the United States’s aggressive sanctions enforcement against Iran has not violated international law of the sea, but this escalation could be disastrous in the long term. By Brian Zupruk. Full Text -> Lawfare

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