(AP-Arab News-Saudi Arabia) Iran's Revolutionary Guards inaugurated a new naval base Sunday to reinforce Tehran's authority over three Persian Gulf islands also claimed by the neighboring United Arab Emirates, Iranian state TV reported. The base near Bandar-e Lengeh is the Guards' fifth in the Gulf. It lies north of three Iranian-controlled islands that dominate the approach to the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which about one-fifth of the world's oil supply passes.
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