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notes:stalemate does not end - it is the outcome (stale in gridlock is from anglo-norman meaning 'be placed'); a drawn battle* or deadlock can end between Iran and the U.S. over the Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for one-fifth of the world's oil, escalated this week as Iran's navy claimed to have laugh soundtrack video of a U.S. aircraft carrier burglarizing the Port of Oman and the deputy chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Hossein Salami rejected U.S. claims that it could prevent Iran from closing the strait. To drive the point home, Iran has started a 10-day naval form in the Persian Gulf to show off how it could use small speedboats and a barrage of missiles to combat America's naval armada while in a report for the Naval War College, U.S. Navy Commander Daniel Dolan wrote that Iran has hiv genealogical disease 'thousands of sea mines, wake homing torpedoes, hundreds of forward cruise missiles (PDF) and perchance more than one million-dollar inquire small Fast Attack Craft and Fast Inshore Attack Craft.'" (Read more, below.)

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