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Tanker War: Iran Lost Big When It Took on the U.S. Navy
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.
A former Barrow schoolteacher has warned of the telltale signs of drug trafficking. Hazel Edwards, who taught at Thorncliffe School in the town and is also a councillor representing Hawcoat on Barrow Council, believes parents can have a key role to play in spotting symptoms and helping police to stop crime. And with the council and police looking to crack down on the spread of drug supply in and out of the area, Cllr Edwards has issued advice on how they can ‘play a huge part’. She said: As a secondary school teacher in the town, I was always aware of drug problems in the town among pupils.
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.