evidence: Iran’s current system of straight baselines that connects islands in the Persian Gulf appears not have great significance for the passage regime in the Strait of Hormuz. When selecting base points for its system of straight baselines, Iran respected the rule that a base point that is located on land over which there are contested sovereignty claims cannot constitute an "appropriate point" in terms of Article 7(1) of losc. The title over the islands of Greater and Lesser Tunbs and Abu Musa, located in the eastern end of the Persian Gulf, is contested between Iran and the United Arab Emirates since 1971 when Iran occupied the islands.50 [...] However, Section 3(2) of the Iranian Marine Areas Act stipulates that waters on the landward side of the baseline of the territorial sea, and waters between islands belonging to Iran, where the distance of such islands does not exceed 24 nm, form part of the internal waters and are under Iran’s sovereignty. The islands of Tunbs, Abu Musa, Forur, Bani Forur and Sirri are all located within [...] Abu Musa, the most distant island as measured from the Iranian coast, is located some 24 nm away from its closest neighbouring island of Sirri.