We cannot accept a repeat of the 1979 hostage crisis
Iran has not formally closed the waterway. It is changing its meaning (File/AFP)
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In 1979, a group of students in Tehran converted a foundational principle of the international system — the inviolability of diplomatic premises — into something that could be held, bargained over and ultimately compromised. When the hostages were released in January 1981, the US recovered its citizens. It never recovered the principle.
