• The Charles de Gaulle carrier strike group has entered the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden as part of French and British preparations for a future mission to secure freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.
  • The French strike group was deployed in the eastern Mediterranean after US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran and can remain at sea for four to five months.
  • France and Britain are leading an initiative to establish an international mission to protect navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, through which nearly a fifth of the world’s oil passes.

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