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Iran threatens to close Straits of Hormuz with missile launch

08/11/2008
The Iranian government, in a stand-off with the United Nations Security Council over its “inalienable right” to develop nuclear power, has threatened to use a newly tested short-range missile to close the Straits of Hormuz, if necessary.“No enemy vessels would be able to escape it within a 300-km radius from the borders of Iran,” said Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander of the country’s Revolutionary Guards, referring to a new Iranian-built antiship missile.The Straits of Hormuz, described by the US Energy Information Administration, as a major “choke-point” of world oil shipping, sees about 17 million b/d of crude oil.To avert an attack by the US...
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