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Semantics and pedantry.

*sigh* It's the Iranian military doing this bullshit. Legally, it's no different than the US Coast Guard stopping, searching, and seizing a vessel 50nmi off the coast of Hawaii for violating a US law or regulation.

No, but it's irrelevant because "good reason" and "probable cause" are sorta at the discretion of the country doing the enforcing.

Technically, what Iran is doing isn't piracy. We just call it that because we don't like Iran's government. All shipping in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman is in someone's territorial waters or EEZ and a country does have the right to stop, search, and inspect vessels within their EEZ to...

I've seen ancient Egyptian coins from that era. Cleopatra was more inbred than I am and those coins say "she had genitic health issues I don't have" and the worst ones I've got are flat feet and a cinnamon alergy.

Agustus was Julius Ceasar's adopted nephew and killed Julius Caesar's and Cleopatra's son along with the kids she had with Mark Antony while they were defending Egypt from Rome.

And, in the form of the Byzantines, held on for hundreds of years in the face Islamic agression and, at best, Catholic apathy if not outright hostility. Constantinople fell to the Ottomans the same year the English lost Calais to the French: 1453.