How the Navy SEALs are Preparing to Fight Iranian Naval Mines
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.
In January 2020, Iran Shot Down a Civilian Airliner - But in 1988, the United States Did the Same Thing
All of which proves that the events of thirty years ago not only loom large today, but that the U.S-Iran conflict is far from over.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The two events are disturbingly similar. In both cases, heightened tensions and uncertainty over the identity of the plane in question resulted in tragedy.
Now that Iran has confessed to shooting down Ukrainian International Airlines 752 (PS752), could the tragedy present an opportunity to de-escalate its conflict with the United States which, just recently, threatened to combust into a major regional conflagration?