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    Australia Joins U.S.-Led Maritime Force Protecting Persian Gulf Shipping

    Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Canberra would commit a frigate, patrol plane and specialist defense force personnel to the security flotilla escorting commercial shipping from Iranian attacks.
    by Scott Neuman Aug 22, 2019 1 minute
    Pictures from Iran's semiofficial Tasnim news agency show the Stena Impero being held in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas last month.

    Australia has agreed to join a U.S.-led naval contingent protecting commercial shipping in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman amid alleged attacks by Iran against vessels operating in the strategic waterways.

    Australia will join Britain and Bahrain as part

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