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Marco Rubio: “It is a violation of international maritime law to impede…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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‘THIS GUY IS A LIAR’: Rubio drops stark warning

Published | Video Starts at 12:32

Well, the Straits of Hormuz, those are international waters, right? So anything Iran does to impede commercial traffic is illegal. For all these countries that love to talk about international law, It is a violation of international maritime law to impede the free flow of travel in international waters. Okay, so that's number one. Number two, it's illegal to bomb and hit and attack commercial shipping and sink them. I mean, that's what the Nazis did during World War II in the Atlantic. (12:32–12:39)

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Asserts that impeding travel in international waters violates international maritime law.

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