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Lawmaker says Iran’s closure of Strait of Hormuz violates international law, criticizes administration’s surprise
Summary
A lawmaker told the Senate Committee that Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz breaches international law, cited about 140 co-sponsors on a United Nations resolution condemning the move, and faulted the administration for expressing surprise at an outcome many had predicted.
A lawmaker told the committee that Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz and that the action violates "every international law you can imagine," saying even China opposes the move.
The lawmaker said the United Nations is considering a resolution to condemn the closure and to reopen the strait, adding that "we have I think a record number 140 co-sponsors" though the resolution "hasn't come up for a vote yet." The lawmaker characterized the international response as broadly opposed to Iran’s action.
A different committee member interjected that some participants were "defending what Iran is doing." The lawmaker responded that the closure was predictable and that experts — or even large-language models — would have forecast such an outcome after kinetic action against Iran. "You could literally put this into an LLM and say what will happen if we take kinetic action against Iran," the lawmaker said, arguing the administration should not be surprised by the result.
The remarks in the transcript focus on international condemnation, the UN co-sponsor count, and the predictability of the closure; the excerpt provided does not record any formal motion, vote, or committee action on the matter.
