September 20, 2019
Iran and U.S. Navy SEALs Are Ready to Battle in the Persian Gulf
This happened once before.
by Sebastien Roblin
Key point: America would win, but it would not be painless, quick, or easy.
On July 21, 1987, a gigantic 414,000-ton supertanker entered the Persian Gulf with an unusually prominent escort—a U.S. Navy missile cruiser and three frigates.
The narrow straits of the Persian Gulf had become a shooting gallery due to the Iran-Iraq War, still raging seven years after Iraq’s surprise invasion of Iran in 1980. As Iran counterattacked into Iraqi territory, Baghdad—supplied and armed by the Soviet Union, France, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia—began blasting Iranian oil tankers with missiles, often with assistance from U.S. surveillance assets.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/iran-and-us-navy-seals-are-ready-battle-persian-gulf-82021
