Richard Haass on 20% Toll on Cargo Through Strait of Hormuz: ‘Impossible to Enforce’

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HAASS: "It’s not possible to enforce. Totally legitimizes what Iran wants to do, which we oppose. It reinforces a flawed MOU, which gives them the right to do it after 60 days. It raises fundamental questions about our motives. You can disagree with everything the administration has done about this war, but at least they were foreign policy motives. Now, to make it look like somehow it’s a — it’s a scheme to collect. One last thing. You can’t keep the strait open by threats. No one’s going to give insurance to Strait. What are we going to do? Have the entire U.S. Navy in the Strait convoying individual tankers? The ships aren’t safe. You can’t do it. It just is not a workable thing. At some point, we need to reach some accommodation with the Straits. And I think after four months, we ought to have learned we can’t bomb Iran into capitulation. So, again, I listen to all this, I watch all this and I just — I just do not see the logic of what we're doing."