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Just for comparison, an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a seazone prescribed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind. It stretches from the baseline out to 200 nautical miles (370km) from its coast.
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Lebanon Speaker on EEZ: Our problem is with Israel not Cyprus | Ya Libnan | World News Live from Lebanon
Carrier based aviation and cruise missile equipped ships can - easily - hit Syria from outside its EEZ (and outside of reach of any coastal missile batteries).
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With respect to inclusion of Us 5th fleet in the Persian Gulf (8), consider the distance Basra-Damascus being 1134 km = 705 miles = within cruisemissile and - with aerial refuelling - within carrier aviation range. Project that distance from Damascus into the Mediterranean Sea and that'll give you an idea of how far naval ships can stand-off the coast while conducting a strike on Syria. Hence, note (4) and (2). US cruisemissile equipped destroyers in the Med are within strike range, RN surface warships are standing 'well clear' of the Syrian coastline.
Which perfectly illustrates that naval forces could effectively strike at significant portions of Iran from outside the Persian Gulf, including from the Mediterranean and Arabian Seas, without even being close to the Strait of Hormuz. So let Iran be the first to fire its missiles on commercial shipping there: it will only provide excuse to accompany commercial ships with navy ships. Fire upon those, and it is an excuse for all out war (coalition formation likely, but no longer required for military intervention). In Russian roulette, there is no bluffing.
What you do not seem to grasp, is that Iran won't attack first, it is in its doctrine of defence, and it stated clearly that it will respond to any attack on its land.
Meaning that in case of the USrael attack on Iran, all hell will break loose in the Area; The strait of Hormuz will be closed (oil prices will be too high for you to drive to school or work, so you better do a good check on your bicycle) and war will spread to all American bases and interests in the Area and to Israel who is clearly behind the whole affair.
No one denies that the US can send cruise missiles on Iran, but all the experts agree that it will be unsuccessful to achieve any worthy goal, not even against Syria.
The most appalling things are the lies behind all these moves to wage war, with unknown and mostly unpredictable and very dangerous consequences.
It is all about Oil and Gaz and the control of pipelines and supplies; the oil and gaz reserves of the area are too huge to be left to one side, so it a proxy economic war between the US and Russia mostly, but it involves China, Japan and others as best examples of dependency on these reserves.