Strait of Hormuz, Abu Musa and the Tunbs political map. The Strait is the only sea passage from Persian Gulf to Arabian Sea and one of the most strategically important choke points in worldPeter ...

Iran's top naval commander, Habibollah Sayyari, told Iran's English-language Press TV on Wednesday that closing the Persian Gulf to oil tanker traffic at the Strait of Hormuz would be "easier than ...

With the economic noose poised to tighten around Iran over its suspect nuclear program, the Tehran regime is shaking a stick at Gulf nations. Military officials in Tehran said the United States ...

This has provoked the following question: What actually is Iran’s strategy in the Strait of Hormuz? The West has ... would increase the economic and political vulnerability of the Persian ...

surveillance aircraft and about 200 troops to a US-led convoy to protect ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. But why is this small passage – just 39km across at its narrowest point ...

The seizure of a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is the latest example of how tensions between the U.S. and Iran have spilled into one of ...

Puller transited the Strait of Hormuz on Dec. 18 ... In fact, Iranian leaders will likely feel tremendous political pressure to ratchet up maritime hybrid warfare in response to the drone ...

Iran would have big problems if it attempted to close the Strait ... political bloc around Rouhani and isolate the U.S. from its European allies, but the costs of that calculation are severe. My ...

The Saudi's and their allies recently attacked rebels in Yemen. This led to a fast price appreciation in oil future due to a potential disruption of supply. The Strait of Hormuz has 17 million ...

The Strait of Hormuz sits strategically between the Gulf ... affected by the apparent unwinding of OPEC power than the geo-political events unfolding in the Middle East. Look, no one's questioning ...

The South Korean government's decision to send troops to the Strait of Hormuz triggered political debate, with the ruling and opposition parties at odds over the highly controversial issue ...

1 Iran's Navy Commander Habibulah Sayari points at a map during a news conference in Tehran December 22, 2011 before Iran's navy launched a 10-day war game in the Strait of Hormuz. (Reuters ...