Battle in the high seas

UK marines illegally seized an Iranian oil cargo off the coast of Gibraltar in July 2019 after evoking suspicions that European Union sanctions on Syria were being violated.

What happened then was that Iran decided it could use levers of its own. The country was in control of a major passageway: the Strait of Hormuz, through which dozens of oil tankers pass every day.


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