Iranian officials threatened last week to close the strait, halting all oil shipments, if the West imposed sanctions on Iranian oil exports. The U.S. Fifth Fleet, based in Manama, Bahrain, about 100 miles from Iran's coastline, responded by saying it would not tolerate "any disruption."
2 January: Iran successfully test-fired long-range missiles in the Persian Gulf this morning, a day after testing a medium-range missile,according to an Iranian military official. "We have test fired a long-range shore-to-sea missile called Qader [ca