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esper gives his first press briefing, ending a year-long drought at

The secretary touched on variety of issues, ranging from Pentagon's ongoing effort to refocus on adversaries like China and Russia to U.S.-led operation defending shipping from Iran in Persian Gulf. Members of Pentagon press corps could be seen snapping selfies and pictures of..

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps Public Relations Department Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif lauded the IRGC for downing an intruder US spy drone and seizing a violator British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. . . . . South Korea Has ‘No Plan’ to Host US Missiles..

it's always about the oil

Lacking significant reserves of their own, the major Asian consumers will turn to the one place with sufficient capacity to satisfy their rising needs: the Persian Gulf. According to BP, in 2018, Japan already obtained 87% of its oil imports from the Middle East, India 64%, and..

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Geographically, Iran is the only connection between the Persian Gulf and the Central Asian nations, a market of about 65 million people. It also lies in a direct path from China in the East through Turkey to Europe in the West. ..

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President Trump has enacted a law that requires the State Department to punish Chinese officials who bar American officials, journalists and other citizens from going freely to Tibetan areas in China’s far west. . . ... A U.S. aircraft carrier sailed into the Persian Gulf on..

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On the other hand Trump administration also issued very serious statement against Iran declaring that its policies are against the peace and security and now it seems that United States is reducing its naval forces in Persian Gulf for another perhaps more dangerous possible front.. ..

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