Strait of Hormuz 0
15 December 2019

A senior IRGC commander indicated that “the IRGC navy checks and monitors foreign vessels entering the Persian Gulf and questions them about their nationality, the type of the vessels and their destination… The Persian Gulf belongs to Iran and other littoral states and we have the right to question the vessels, because the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz is located in Iran’s territorial waters”.

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