Donald Trump<\/a>, said American forces \u201credirected\u201d two commercial ships attempting to breach the blockade.<\/p>\nThe reported activity took place within 17 hours of reinitiating the naval blockade in the waterway.<\/p>\n
Strategic importance of the targeted location<\/p>\n
\u201cThe US military remains vigilant and prepared to ensure full compliance,\u201d CENTCOM said in a social media post.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s Greater Tunb, which was attacked on Wednesday, is one of the several islands in the region that, according to experts, are significant in order to secure safe passage of ships and naval vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, CNN reported.<\/p>\n
Historical territorial dispute and potential operational control<\/p>\n
Notably, the Greater Tunb island is administered by Iranian authorities, though it is claimed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE).<\/p>\n
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Tehran took control of Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb, and Abu Musa in 1971, which would have become the UAE, and hence, Abu Dhabi has sought to reclaim them, AP reported.<\/p>\n
Quoting analysts, the report added that if the US takes over the islands, the American administration could allow it to control the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
Defensive network classified by academic researchers<\/p>\n
The CNN report cited researchers at the Sun Yat-sen University in Zhuhai, China, who called Greater Tunb and six other islands, namely: Abu Musa, Lesser Tunb, Hengam, Qeshm, Larak, and Hormuz, Iran\u2019s \u201carch defence\u201d in the strait.<\/p>\n
The researchers said Iranian officials have called the six islands and other gulf islands in the region Tehran\u2019s \u201cstationary and unsinkable aircraft carriers.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Iranian state media had reported last year that Tehran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was reinforcing its presence on Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb.<\/p>\n
Peripheral targets struck in neighboring province<\/p>\n
Another strike by the US military targeted a barracks for Iran\u2019s 388th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, which is responsible for operating armoured vehicles and tanks in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Tehran\u2019s state media reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Central Command (CENTCOM) on Wednesday, in its latest wave of strikes, targeted Iran\u2019s small island Greater…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[60931,60929,60940,60925,27115,60936,60924,60926,6846,60933,60935,60938,60928,60941,60930,60939,3226,39,26985,60927,60932,101,4821,60937,75,60934],"class_list":["post-208455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-388th-mechanized-infantry-brigade","tag-abu-musa-island","tag-centcom-strike","tag-centcom-strikes-iran","tag-donald-trump-iran-blockade","tag-greater-tunb-explained","tag-greater-tunb-island","tag-greater-tunb-island-attack","tag-hormuz-shipping-route","tag-international-shipping-route-security","tag-iran-island-dispute","tag-iran-naval-strategy","tag-iran-uae-island-dispute","tag-irgc-presence","tag-lesser-tunb","tag-lesser-tunb-island","tag-middle-east-geopolitics","tag-persian-gulf","tag-persian-gulf-islands","tag-persian-gulf-naval-blockade","tag-sistan-and-baluchestan-province-strike","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-strait-of-hormuz-conflict","tag-uae-claim-greater-tunb","tag-us-central-command","tag-us-strike-on-greater-tunb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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