U.S. tensions with Iran remain high.
Here s What You Need to Remember: The Tanker War demonstrated how Iran could retaliate against foreign pressure through calibrated, and semi-deniable attacks on the valuable shipping passing through the narrow waters of the Gulf even though the campaign failed to inflict substantial economic damage, or indeed sink many large ships.
On July 21, 1987, a gigantic 414,000-ton supertanker entered the Persian Gulf with an unusually prominent escort a U.S. Navy missile cruiser and three frigates.
The narrow straits of the Persian Gulf had become a shooting gallery due to the Iran-Iraq War, still raging seven years after Iraq’s surprise invasion of Iran in 1980. As Iran counterattacked into Iraqi territory, Baghdad supplied and armed by the Soviet Union, France, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia began blasting Iranian oil tankers with missiles, often with assistance from U.S. surveillance assets.
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While order was being restored in Washington and international attention was focused on the events that were playing out in the American capital, the violence in Syria continued. On Wednesday night, the Israelis conducted another airstrike at approximately 11 p.m. against Iranian-proxy militias inside of Syria. This was the third such airstrike attributed to Israel in the past two weeks.
Syrian state-run television SANA stated that the attacks originated from the Golan Heights and struck several different targets around the area of al-Kiswah, south of Damascus, and around the town of al-Dimas to the west. It added that Syrian air defenses shot down “most of the missiles,” while explosions were heard over the skies of Damascus.
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The narrow straits of the Persian Gulf had become a shooting gallery due to the Iran-Iraq War, still raging seven years after Iraq’s surprise invasion of Iran in 1980.
Here s What You Need to Remember: The Tanker War demonstrated how Iran could retaliate against foreign pressure through calibrated, and semi-deniable attacks on the valuable shipping passing through the narrow waters of the Gulf even though the campaign failed to inflict substantial economic damage, or indeed sink many large ships.
On July 21, 1987, a gigantic 414,000-ton supertanker entered the Persian Gulf with an unusually prominent escort a U.S. Navy missile cruiser and three frigates.
Iranian statements put southern Lebanon in the line of fire
Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Air Force Ali Haji Zadeh said in statements to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar channel, last Saturday, that “all the missile capabilities that Gaza and Lebanon possess were provided by Iran,” noting that both Gaza and Lebanon “are the two main frontlines for confrontation.”
Wednesday 06/01/2021
Lebanon’s Hezbollah members raise a flag bearing portraits of (L-R) slain Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Hezbollah’s Imad Moghniyeh, and IRGC’s Qasem Soleimani, on a hill facing the Israeli town of Metula on the border with Lebanon, on January 3,
BEIRUT – In light of mutual threats between Iran and the United States, heated debates have broken out over the fate of the region during the transitional period in Washington, during which the Trump administration will leave President-elect Biden with many challenges.