Japan, India and South Korea would be some of the most vulnerable economies to a Persian Gulf war due to their heavy dependence on the region's crude
The two ships, backed by surveillance aircraft, will not be part of a military coalition that the United States is assembling to safeguard the waters off Iran near the Straits of Hormuz
Navy ships have been escorting Indian-flagged vessels in and out of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed is attempting to do top-down what at least some of the Iranian protesters are trying to do bottom-up