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Iran opens oil export terminal outside strategic strait July 23 2021 01:06 AM RELATED STORIES
This handout photograph released by the Iranian Presidentقs Office shows President Hassan Rouhani (right) and Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, arriving to inaugurate the Jask oil terminal, in the capital Tehran yesterday. (AFP)
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Iran has opened its first oil export terminal that does not require tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint patrolled by warships of the US, President Hassan Rouhani announced yesterday.
Rouhani hailed as a “historic day” the inauguration of the new terminal located at Jask on the Gulf of Oman, which will allow tanker ships headed into the Arabian Sea and beyond to avoid the narrow waterway.