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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.

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