Australia Joins U.S.-Led Maritime Force Protecting Persian Gulf Shipping
Pictures from Iran's semiofficial Tasnim news agency show the Stena Impero being held in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas last month./ Australia has agreed to join a U.S.-led naval contingent protecting commercial shipping in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman amid alleged attacks by Iran against vessels operating in the strategic waterways. Australia will join Britain and Bahrain as part of a maritime security mission to escort commercial shipping in the region, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Wednesday. He said his government would ...
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