- Breaking News Prayers answered with A[pounds sterling]2m winfall
- Breaking News Be who you are, promote yourself as such
- Breaking News du launches Business Super BlackBerry the latest and best
- Breaking News AHEC to drive wood product certification and green building debate
Iran hypes war games in Gulf oil corridor
0 Comments | AFP, April, 2006
TEHRAN (AFP) — The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards played up the significance of its war games in the narrow neck in the Gulf through which two-fifths of the world's oil trade passes.
"The importance of the ... maneuvers lies in the time and geographical place they are happening as well as the arms used," General Yahya Rahim Safavi told the official IRNA news agency.
The Straits of Hormuz, between the Gulf and the Sea of Oman, is a strategic corridor for the oil exports.
Iran has been showing off its military achievements in the Gulf, including radar-evading anti-ship missiles, which analysts fear Tehran could use to cripple maritime traffic and block the Straits if threatened over its nuclear ambitions.
Iran is under mounting world...
- The Entrepreneurship Dynamic: Origins of Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Industries - Book Review
- Industry Experts Launch Money Management Resources to Help People Overcome Debt and Learn Proper Money Management Practices
- Organizational structure and the delivery of primary care to older Americans
- Controlling Joint Venture Risk
- The multi generational workforce: audit departments can leverage the varied talents of different age segments in today's workplace, while avoiding the potential for interpersonal clash
- Three components of perceived environmental uncertainty: an exploratory analysis of the effects of aggregation
- SAS #82: sword or shield?
- 10 steps to better communication: Get results with a strategic plan that leaves quick fixes in the dust