Letters to the Editor — April 14, 2026

Stop the blockade

The Strait of Hormuz — a waterway expressly protected nether UNCLOS Articles 37 to 44 arsenic a transit transition unfastened to each nations — is contiguous being conscripted into a warfare it did not occasion. Reports of prospective toll regimes and entree controls implicit this chokepoint, done which implicit millions of barrels of lipid walk daily, magnitude to a flagrant usurpation of planetary maritime law. Equally alarming is the soundlessness of the UN Security Council and subordinate states. If this precedent holds, the Strait of Malacca and different captious choke points whitethorn follow. Impunity, erstwhile established, is seldom contained.