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U.S. Carrier Crosses Hormuz Amid Rising Gulf Tensions

Description:A U.S. aircraft carrier sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday (February 14) more than a month after Iran warned a different carrier not to return to the Gulf. Iran has threatened to close the strategic waterway, used for a third of the world's seaborne oil trade, if Western moves to ban Iranian crude exports cripple its energy sector. The USS Abraham Lincoln -- part of the Bahrain-based U.S. Fifth Fleet -- sailed through the Strait with the Cape St George destroyer cruising behind. (1:48)

Source: Reuters

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