If Iran tries to charge a toll for passage in an International Waterway, then it is effectively engaged in extortion, and a form of maritime piracy that targets the Gulf Arabs. Your excuse is to now say that if it shares with Oman it will be ok. That would still not make it right. Your argument is incredibly stupid. The argument can then be applied in the Straits of Malacca and Bab el Mandeb passage. Apply tolls there, and watch the local economies suffer and the oil and gas market prices increase. If the Iranians can do it, then Sweden and Denmark should do it for their narrow waterways, the Baltic states can apply it to the entry of the Baltic sea. South Africa could apply a toll to the vessels transiting the Cape of Good Hope. The UK could do similar in the English Channel, or at Gibraltar and cripple the North African and Southern European economies. Iran can try to impose its extortion. The world will not accept it. The OAU, India and others have already made their views known. The Arabs will not accept it either.
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