General Discussion

Just as Russian oil and tankers are being sanctioned for their attack on Ukraine.

All that being said, Iran does have the right to protest the seizure and will probably get its ship back.

It's political posturing to hurt the Venezuelan government. And it's generally recognized as being a technically legal way to do so.
Honestly, I'm just waiting for the time it will be used against us.
Give the rest of the world three or four years, if they can hold onto their own economic tatters when we Hindenburg our way into a collapse worse than that of the Soviet Union when it broke apart.

Ya, it's technically legal. Unlike blowing up small boats with fishermen on them because the head of your military is either on a bender or is a dry drunk.