![]() In July 2010 a Japanese oil tanker called M Star was attacked in the Strait. In June 2008, Revolutionary Guards commander-in-chief, Mohammad Ali Jafari, said Iran would impose controls on shipping in the Strait if it was attacked. In early 2008 the United States said Iranian boats had threatened its warships after they approached three U.S. said the Vincennes was in the area to protect neutral vessels against Iranian navy attacks. warship Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner, killing all 290 on-board, in what Washington said was an accident after crew mistook the plane for a fighter. The UAE and Saudi Arabia have sought to find alternatives to bypass the strait. was negotiating with Iran," the said on July 5 "Under the Bush administration there was always one to two carriers in the Arab Gulf, under the Obama administration there were some short times when the Arabian Gulf was left with no carriers but that was gestures made while the U.S. They add the carrier that could have made the short trip to the Gulf from the eastern Mediterranean, turned around to sail back to the Atlantic. aircraft carriers in the region say there are currently no carriers in the Arabian Gulf. Energy consultants Petromatrix who track U.S. Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain, is tasked with protecting the commercial ships in the area. ![]() Throughout the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) the two sides sought to disrupt each other's oil exports in what was known as the Tanker War. It is also the route for nearly all the liquefied natural gas (LNG) from lead exporter Qatar. Most of the crude exported from Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Iraq passes through it. ![]() Energy Information Administration estimates a record 18.5 million barrels per day of sea-borne oil passed through it in 2016, a 9 percent increase on flows in 2015 which accounted for 30 pct of all sea-borne traded crude oil and other liquids during the year. It is 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, but the shipping lane is only two miles wide in either direction. It is a waterway separating Iran and Oman, connecting the Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. ![]()
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