BRIEF FIGURE REPORTS – Less than a month ago, with global attention focused on the Ukrainian offensive, US Admiral James Stavridis (ret.) tried to open the security gap a little wider by pointing to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and their seizure of a couple of huge oil tankers. near the Strait of Hormuz.
Heralded as the world’s most important energy bottleneck, transiting a third of its total oil exports by sea and a quarter of its liquefied natural gas, Stavridis said that to protect shipping in the straits, the U.S. -shipping campaigns of the 1980s, known as the “War of the Tankers”. Back then, in the midst of the ongoing conflict between Iraq and Iran, US ships were escorting tankers through the Persian Gulf, a positioning that resulted in a one-day battle between Washington and Tehran.
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