In relation to the incidents,advise whether the US and Iran are parties to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 (UNCLOS) and, if not, what international law would be applicable.
Description In recent years, there have been a number of incidents in the Persian Gulf, including the following. In January 2016, two US navy command boats entered Iranian waters and the Iranian navy detained ten US sailors, releasing them the following day. The US navy claimed that Iran had impeded the boat’s innocent passage transit […]