Iran has dismissed reports that its oil tankers seized by US forces in the Persian Gulf were operating under false Iraqi ...

Amid rising tensions with the US, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has increased its military presence in the Persian ...

“The likelihood of an all-out war between Israel and Iran ... be Iranians striking oil-producing and oil-exporting facilities in the Persian Gulf, he cautioned. “The pressure around the ...

the Cold War politics of reform in Mohammad Reza Shah's Iran and King Faisal's Saudi Arabia; the British withdrawal from the Persian Gulf between 1968 and 1971; Nixon and Kissinger in the Persian Gulf ...

America’s decades-old commitment to protect Persian Gulf oil offers some perspective as Ukraine and the U.S. close in on a ...

During the Iran-Iraq War, oil tankers were attacked in the Persian Gulf by both Iraq and Iran, leading in part to the U.S. decision in 1987 to "reflag" Kuwait tankers and also to increase U.S ...

The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, is rarely far from the center of global tensions. A ...

This past March, China, Russia, and Iran held joint naval drills in the Gulf of Oman, near the mouth of the Persian Gulf ... China purchases oil from the other two countries.

Suez/Sumed Complex:After passing through the Bab al-Mandab, oil en route from the Persian Gulf must pass either through the Suez Canal or the Sumed Pipeline complex in Egypt. Both of these ...