Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the Christian Science Monitor, "U.S.-Iran naval confrontation in Gulf raises tensions."
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the Christian Science Monitor, "U.S.-Iran naval confrontation in Gulf raises tensions."
The US and its allies have long been concerned that Iran could block the passageway, crippling US oil shipments out of the Gulf, according to Anthony Cordesman, a security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"While the threat from Iran's conventional military may be real, the more dangerous threat is that of extremist groups' asymmetric attacks on oil facilities," he wrote in a 2006 report. "There is no attack-proof security system. It may take only one asymmetric or conventional attack on ... tankers in the Strait of Hormuz to throw the market into a spiral."
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