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...years, American warships have been plying the Persian Gulf, symbolizing and substantiating the nation's role as a global power. Never before, however, have those vital waters seemed so treacherous. By blustering into an open- ended commitment to provide convoy protection to eleven reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers, the U.S. now finds itself embroiled as a halfhearted belligerent in a seven-year-old struggle between Iran and Iraq and once more rattling sabers with Tehran's fanatic mullahs...
...Mecca clashes were widely viewed in the region as a manifestation of Arab-Persian jealousies and the divisions of Islam...
WASHINGTON--A Navy helicopter on a routine ferry flight crashed into the Persian Gulf yesterday as it was nearing the USS LaSalle for a landing, leaving one man dead and three missing, the Pentagon said...
...expressed support for France's firm stance. The Reagan Administration was engaged in its own war of words with Tehran. Interior Minister Mohtashami vowed retaliation if the U.S. proceeded this week with its plans to reflag Kuwaiti tankers and use American warships to protect the vessels in the Persian Gulf. Said Mohtashami: "Islamic Revolutionary Guards will turn the Persian Gulf into a graveyard for the Americans." According to some reports, Iran has mobilized seaborne suicide squads, who plan to ram U.S. ships with vessels that have been turned into floating bombs...
...plan to register eleven Kuwaiti tankers under the U.S. flag and provide them with a naval escort. The measure, however, was largely symbolic, because even if the Senate had followed suit, a presidential veto would probably have ensued. The reflagged tankers are scheduled to begin operating in the Persian Gulf next week...