What the 1987 Tanker War teaches us about the Strait of Hormuz stand-off

from The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey · host James M. Dorsey

The 1987 Iran-Iraq Tanker War offers important lessons for today’s US-Iranian stand-off in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The war erupted as a subset of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war after Iraq’s navy attacked Iranian tankers and oil facilities. The similarities between the Tanker War and the battle for the Strait are significant.

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