As Reuters emphasizes, This could lead to an even greater escalation of Middle East conflict. The agency reminded that the Iranian parliament supported such a step, although the decision taken by this institution was not binding. As Reuters noted, oil prices, instead of soaking up, eventually fell by over 10 percent. Since the American attack on Iranian nuclear goals.
Failure of the strait by Iran Reuters sources in the White House attribute the decisions of US President Donald Trump to carry out a military operation against Iranian nuclear objects.
Strait of Orter. What did Iran do?
The agency did not determine if the faces that were loaded on the boat in June were released back. Reuters' informants also do not rule out that loading mines was a bluff that was to show strongly Tehran. “The Iranian armed forces could simply, simply, make the necessary preparations in the event of an order by leaders in Tehran,” Reuters assumes.
According to the American intelligence estimates of 2019, Iran had over 5,000 at the time. naval mines, which They could be quickly arranged with small and fast boats.
The Strait of the Ormuz is the isthmus – in the narrowest place with only 33 km wide – enabling navigation between the Persian Gulf and the Oman bay in the Arab Sea. It runs a sea trail, which is transported one -fifth of global supplies of crude oil.
In the last dozen or so months a day, 17.8-20.8 million barrels of this raw material from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran and the United Arab Emirates and LNG gas, mainly from Qatar, flowed. Most oil transported by this route goes to Asian markets.
