Trita Parsi
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Appearances Over Time
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But it is framed because a toll would be really illegal internationally in the absence of a war.
Instead, it will be an environmental management fee.
in which countries are paying because there's such a high traffic in that straight.
And this would then be collected by Iran and Oman.
However, the U.S.
position
is one in which they're not crazy about this idea.
They prefer it to be regionalized.
So it's not just Iran and Oman, but also the other states in the GCC.
That would give the Trump administration ability to say, it's not the Iranians controlling it.
This is the region.
It's their region.
And they've decided to do this.
And, you know, it's just a management fee.
And we can one way or another live with that.
So I think, and again, so this issue is not entirely resolved.
It will be resolved as part of the 30 days.
I don't suspect that the Iranians will give up a degree of control at all.
And they can reassert that if there's war again.
But there's also another element here, which is,