This daring operation closed the last major gulf port to the South.
The best way out to market for that oil is straight across Iran to a Gulf port.
Major oil fields are far from population centers but close to gulf ports, so pipelines are short.
From the Gulf ports, transports laden with Southern troops were also on their way.
Operating out of Atlantic and gulf ports for the next year, she went into fleet reserve on 31 December.
The first ships are expected to begin unloading in gulf ports, probably Kuwait, as early as next week, a military official said.
Iranian tugboats took the tanker to the central gulf port of Lavan.
She was a regular trading vessel between Port Adelaide and the gulf ports.
His boats-coming to the Gulf ports from the seven seas-are not boats sailing the seas of make-believe.
'Is it your opinion that we should cease all oil shipments from Gulf ports to France?'