No one can stop Iran from threatening the Strait of Hormuz.

In addition, threats to the Strait of Hormuz would allow Iran to force prices up without any reduction in output.

Yes, Ahmadinejad will probably find a way to re escalate the conflict. No one can stop Iran from threatening the Strait of Hormuz.

Another more radical development is Iran's threat of closing the Strait of Hormuz, through which almost half of all oil used throughout the world passes.

It might not be able to close the Strait of Hormuz, but threats to refineries, storage facilities, and tankers would send oil prices even higher.

In other words, a revolution in Saudi Arabia or a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could still inflict damage on the US and its allies.

But the US military would have to be able to prevent Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz, through which much of the world s oil supply passes.

The final portion of their mission took them to Spain, where they met with king Philip III, and obtained seaborne transportation from Portugal to the Strait of Hormuz and Persia.

Yemen is strategically important, not only for Saudi Arabia, but for the world, because it is the only country on the Arabian Peninsula from which oil can reach the open seas without passing through a narrow strait either the Strait of Hormuz or the Suez Canal.

Strait of Gibraltar crossing

Makassar Strait is a strait between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi in Indonesia.

The Sunda Strait (Indonesian Selat Sunda ) is the strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra.

The Torres Strait is a strait which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea.

The Strait of Tiran and Tiran Island.

India should seek to play the role of honest broker to defuse the threat of military hostilities, which would most likely shut down the world s most important oil export route, the Strait of Hormuz (a danger that Iran has said is also implicit in an oil export embargo against it).

The US and Iran could go to war not over nuclear issues but because of reckless behavior by the Revolutionary Guards (as occurred recently in the Strait of Hormuz), with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad possibly seeking to provoke a crisis in order to distract domestic attention from his economic failures.

The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1995 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis or the 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was the effect of a series of missile tests conducted by the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the waters surrounding Taiwan including the Taiwan Strait from July 21, 1995 to March 23, 1996.

Europe Africa fixed link through the Strait of Gibraltar

Europe Africa fixed link through the Strait of Gibraltar

Europe Africa permanent link through the Strait of Gibraltar

The Strait of Georgia exhibit represents some of that diversity.

The Strait of Georgia exhibit represents some of that diversity.

Victoria Strait is a strait in northern Canada that lies in Nunavut off the mainland in the Arctic Ocean.

Piracy is also very active in the Strait of Malacca.

The Islamic Republic, with its back to the wall as sanctions bite, could also react by sinking a few ships to block the Strait of Hormuz, or by unleashing its proxies in the region the pro Iranian Shia in Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, as well as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

The activities of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and the transfer of certain specific responsibilities to the Torres Strait Regional Authority are noted with appreciation.

Project for a Europe Africa permanent link through the Strait of Gibraltar

Italy is less than 80 kms away across the Strait of Otranto.

That's to be expected, especially since Iran felt it necessary to provoke an almost certain response from US ships in the Straights of Hormuz.

This has increasingly become the biggest obstacle to the growth of cross Strait relations, as well as the biggest immediate threat to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.

So is support for distinct countries on each side of the Taiwan Strait.

It is separated from the east coast of Sumatra by the Berhala Strait.

These circumstances apply to the recent escalation of tensions in the Taiwan Strait.

The Strait of Malacca joins the Pacific and the Indian Oceans on the west, and Drake Passage and the Strait of Magellan link the Pacific with the Atlantic Ocean on the east.

An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner had been appointed to monitor and assess the human rights of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, in particular women.

This senseless political warfare has hampered cross strait economic relations.

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The Yucatán Channel or Straits of Yucatán is a strait between Mexico and Cuba.

A narrower Nares Strait connects Baffin Bay with the Arctic Ocean.

To the south is the Ombai Strait, and 72 km away, the island of Timor.

During World War II, the Battle of the Denmark Strait took place on 24 May 1941.

The city is located on the British Columbia Coast and sits on the Strait of Georgia.

The focus of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner is on indigenous people.

AND 1992 ON THE PROJECT FOR A EUROPE AFRICA PERMANENT LINK THROUGH THE STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR

Bangka lies just east of Sumatra, separated by the Bangka Strait to the north lies the South China Sea, to the east, across the Gaspar Strait, is the island of Belitung, and to the south is the Java Sea.