The war games will play out in the strategic Strait of Hormuz as pressure mounts on Tehran months after the United States re-imposed sanctions on Iran, targeting its vital oil sector.
TV showed a ceremony marking the inauguration with a three-gun salute at the southern port of Bandar Abbas, at the mouth of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for nearly a third of all oil traded by sea.
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