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The Real Reason US Targeting Iran
Navigating the Strait Part Two: The Truth About Iran
By Karim Rahemtulla, Investment Director
Last week, I told you how I came into the company of two Irani fishermen who agreed to ferry me out to the Strait of Hormuz.
Well, soon thereafter, we left from a small port tucked away in the mountain-side in Khasab, heading towards the Strait. As I mentioned, just days before, Iranian jets had fired on a U.S. military drone a few miles from where we were headed.
The trip took more than an hour and a half, since we had to navigate through the maze of fjords that make up the Musandam Peninsula – a triangular rock formation that stretches out from the Arabian Peninsula toward Iran.
Along the way, hundreds of boats were anchored at various spots with fishermen casting nets. And there I was, pretending to be one of them.
Amazingly, fish are so abundant in the region that they literally jump out of the water, so even I was able to catch a few.
We had a much faster boat than the other fisherman, but that didn’t really distinguish us. There were other vessels besides the fishing boats that were also headed toward the Strait.
Except these other smaller, faster boats were laden with black-market cargo. Unlike the much larger smuggling dhows, which made their way through clandestine routes, the little speedboats made shorter trips to the middle of the Strait. There, they would meet up with counterparts coming from the opposite shore.
As I watched these ships exchange cargo off the coast of Iran, I discovered something that few Western media outlets know about one of the world’s most insular and enigmatic nations…
