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Many Australians will be nervous at the prospect of the Royal Australian Navy’s warships sailing into the tension-ridden waters in the Straits of Hormuz, the entrance to the Arabian Gulf. Foreign affairs and defence officials have been in talks about joining Operation Sentinel, a US-led effort to patrol the Straits and escort international shipping now at risk there.
A series of attacks on oil tankers near the Persian Gulf has ratcheted up tensions between the US and Iran. ISNA
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