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UN maritime chief says 'no countries' have right to close Hormuz

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13-04-2026 | 09:54

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UN maritime chief says 'no countries' have right to close Hormuz

The head of the U.N. maritime agency said Monday no country had a legal right to block shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, a trade passage paralyzed by the U.S.-Iran war.

"In accordance with international law, no country has the right to prohibit the right of innocent passage or the freedom of navigation through international straits that are used for international transit," the International Maritime Organization's Secretary General Arsenio Dominguez told a news conference.

The United States had threatened to begin a blockade of Iranian ports on Monday in and around the strait, which Iranian forces have been controlling access to since the war erupted with U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran on February 28.

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