Farsi Island

Iran-Iraq war Farsi Island became an outpost of the Iranian military during the Iran-Iraq war. By 1986 the Iranian Revolutionary Guards established a headquarters on Farsi island, to monitor and harass merchant shipping. In July 1987 a Kuwaiti oil tanker, the Bridgeton, flagged as American, struck a naval mine 22 miles off the coast of Farsi island. At the time of the Bridgeton striking a mine, the Office of Naval Intelligence reported a heightened presence of Iranian small boat activity. Two months later, the US Navy caught the Iran Ajr in the act of laying mines around Farsi island and was promptly boarded and scuttled by US forces. == See also ==