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After oil increasingly left the Gulf, Iran is trying to regain its stranglehold on shipping

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Iran is stepping up attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf in an effort to restore its leverage over the critical waterway - and possibly goad the United States into retaliating.

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