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Iran and Israel’s Undeclared War at Sea (Part 2): The Potential for Military Escalation

The Washington Institute 13 Apr 2021

Egypt’s October 2018 deflagging and seizure of the Sea Shark, an Emirati-owned vessel carrying crude oil from Iran’s Kharg Island terminal, presumably to Syria The strange case of the Tour 2, which was somehow run aground in Latakia in January 2019 after delivering Iranian crude ...

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‘I don’t regret helping my people and my land’

Cleveland Jewish News 29 Mar 2021

On Nov. 21, 1985, at 10 a.m., Jonathan Pollard and his then-wife arrive at the Israeli Embassy in Washington ... “Everything is fine. You’re home .” ... Q ... Leave ... Q ... Pollard says the last order he received from Yagur, in the autumn of 1985, was to obtain a list of the Iranians’ air-defense equipment that they could use to defend Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf.

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Iran shifts oil exports to the Gulf of Oman

Splash24/7 26 Mar 2021

Currently more than 90% of Iranian oil is exported via the Persian Gulf, principally out of Kharg Island ... .

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Iran installs new system to sell crude in Sea of Oman

Press TV 20 Mar 2021

Hooman Abedi. Press TV, Jask ... Jask will soon become Iran’s second largest oil export terminal after the Kharg Island terminal. The Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf is Iran’s main terminal to export crude oil. To reach Kharg, tankers must pass through the Strait of Hormuz ... www.presstv.ir. www.presstv.co.uk ... .

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Libyan ship accused of Israel oil spill shown anchored off Iran coast - In pictures

The Jerusalem Post 04 Mar 2021

The Emerald, the Iranian vessel at the heart of the Israeli oil spill crisis was seen anchored off the coast of Iran's Kharg Island on January 17, new information has revealed.  ... There, it is loaded with an estimated 112,000 tons of crude oil, before encircling the Persian Gulf and entering Egyptian waters. ... It is currently in Iran ... .

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Israel’s maritime economic zone security in spotlight after oil spill

The Jerusalem Post 04 Mar 2021

Last year, Israel took delivery of its first Sa’ar 6 Corvette. This new ship and the subsequent class of ships based on it are supposed to help protect Israel’s Exclusive Economic Zone ... Some tensions have also been heating up across the Mediterranean.  ... It then went to Kharg Island and then via the Suez Canal on February 1 ... .

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Iran: recent storm causes 0 damages to Kharg oil terminal infrastructure

MENA FN 02 Dec 2020

(MENAFN)Kharg Island Oil Terminal infrastructures has not been damaged by the latest heavy rainfall and storm in the region, declared the Managing Dir... .

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Kharg oil terminal infrastructure unharmed by storm

Tehran Times 01 Dec 2020

TEHRAN – Managing Director of Iranian Oil Terminals Company (IOTC) said on Tuesday that the recent heavy rainfall and storm in the region has not caused any damage to the Kharg Island Oil Terminal infrastructures ... .

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Fire in petrochemical factory in Iran kills 1, injures 4

Seattle PI 19 Nov 2020

The report said the worker died after jumping off a platform where the blaze erupted during the unloading of carbohydrate materials ... The incident happened on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, which is home to Iran’s biggest crude export terminal ... sanctions ... .

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Iran announces joint Saudi oil field project in the Gulf

Middle East Monitor 02 Nov 2020

Iranian authorities announced on Saturday the installation of a housing platform in the joint oil field it shares with Saudi Arabia in Gulf waters ... Saudi Arabia allows Umrah for pilgrims from abroad ... The Forouzan field is shared with the Saudi Marjan field and is located approximately 100 kilometres from the south of the Iranian island of Kharg ... FM.

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Forty Years Ago, September 25, 1980: War Intensifies

Indian Express 24 Sep 2020

Iraq claimed its ground forces made “substantial thrusts” into western Iran along a 500-km invasion front, pushing 16 km beyond a northern city on a key road to Teheran ... Iraqi planes also set fire to part of Iran’s main oil terminal at Kharg island and Iranian oil ministry officials said oil exports from it were being suspended for the present ... .

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Official Announces Plan for Construction of New Island in Kish

Kayhan 19 Sep 2020

KISH (Dispatches) – Managing Director of Kish Free Zone Organization Gholam Hossein Mozaffari said on Saturday that a new island will soon be constructed in Kish , southern Iran ... Qeshm Island is a trading hub and Kharg Island is the pole of Iran’s oil-export industry.

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Iran clears oil spill in northern Gulf region, IRNA agency reports

Arab News 01 Aug 2020

Abuzar oil field, about 75 km (46 miles) west of Iran's Kharg Island, has three main platforms producing between 195,000 to 220,000 barrels per day of oil, IRNA reported, adding 107 wells had ...

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Iran clears oil spill in northern Gulf region: Report

Deccan Herald 01 Aug 2020

Abuzar oil field, about 75 km (46 miles) west of Iran's Kharg Island, has three main platforms producing between 195,000 to 220,000 barrels per day of oil, IRNA reported, adding 107 wells had been drilled in the field ...

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Iran clears oil spill in northern Gulf region

Middle East Monitor 01 Aug 2020

Abuzar oil field, about 75 km (46 miles) west of Iran’s Kharg Island, has three main platforms producing between 195,000 to 220,000 barrels per day of oil, IRNA reported, adding 107 wells had been drilled in the ...