Iran smuggling rife in Arab Gulf
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KHASAB: Smugglers pile boxes high on their speedboats, covering them with tarpaulin before zipping off into the sunset on the short but dangerous journey across the strategic Strait of Hormuz from Oman to Iran. They return in the early morning, their empty fibreglass boats ready to pick up more cargo at the small Gulf port of Khasab, in Oman's isolated northern peninsula of Musandam.Trade with Iran is as ancient as the settlements overlooking the Strait of Hormuz, gateway for a...
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