Hormuz: The untold story of the Strait, part II

In 1976, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi watches military maneuvers on a US frigate in the Strait of Hormuz. 

Fifty years later, a documentary narrator tells the little-known story of the strait from the same spot: from the imposition of the young Shah after the Allied occupation of Iran and crises such as the partition of Azerbaijan and the rivalry of the Qajar dynasty, to the nationalization of oil and the British naval blockade that grounded Iranian tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

After the coup of Mordad 28 and the withdrawal of Britain from the Persian Gulf in the early 1970s, the United States turned the Shah into a gendarme of the region; he rebuilt the navy with American equipment and reclaimed the three islands, but this power was completely dependent on the West. The question is: what will happen if Iran’s and America’s interests do not align one day?

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