A ‘tanker war’ with Iran would be more complicated than the 1980s version
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times (TNS) WASHINGTON — The president was named Reagan, and Iran and Iraq were locked in a horrific war with each other over control of land and the Persian Gulf. The United States and other nations entered the fringes of the conflict when the warring neighbors launched attacks on international oil tankers transiting the strategic waterway — at that time, the route