Word: hormuz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Angered by Washington's decision to reflag and escort Kuwaiti tankers through the gulf, Iran announced with great fanfare that it would stage four days of war games in the Strait of Hormuz, the entryway to the gulf. In case there was any doubt about the intent of the maneuvers, they were code-named "Martyrdom." One of the reflagged ships, the fully loaded Gas Prince, slipped quietly out of harm's way and toward its destination in Japan before the exercises began. But the supertanker Bridgeton, damaged last month by a mine that may have been planted by the Iranians...
Executives of shipping companies said the average number of ships near the Strait of Hormuz, the southern entrance to the Persian Gulf, was down more than half to about 20 since the mine scare began...
...sources said they didn't know if the planes spotted by the P-3 had been visually identified at any point. But one official said it appeared the planes had been monitored taking off from the Iranian naval base at Bandar Abbas on the coast of the Strait of Hormuz...
...sources, who demanded anonymity, said the incident occurred over the weekend shortly after U.S. Navy warships began escorting a group of three Kuwaiti oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz into the Perslan Gulf...
...gunboat hurled nearly a score of rocket-propelled grenades at a U.S.-operated Liberian tanker off the Kuwaiti coast; no casualties were reported. The attacks followed a bout of muscle flexing between the U.S. and Iran. Soon after Iran tested a Chinese-made Silkworm missile at the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Navy held its own drill, launching planes from a carrier in the Gulf of Oman...