Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf is a body of water that connects to the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean through the Strait of Hormuz. 
The Persian Gulf and the surrounding lands contain a significant percentage of the world's easily recoverable fossil fuel reserves.
==History==
===1990-2024===
The United States 5th Fleet based in Bahrain policed the Persian Gulf and protected the flow of oil and natural gas from the region for the first quarter of the 21st century. 
The USA fought two wars against Iraq in 1991 and 2003, overthrowing the regime of Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein in the second conflict. The U.S. occupied Iraq for eight years facing multiple insurgencies.
The USA withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 under President Barack Obama led to Shia domination of Iraq, the rise and fall of ISIS and finally the merger of Iraq with Iran to form the United Islamic Republic. The proposed formation of the UIR led to the Persian Gulf Crisis, the worst armed stand off between the USA and Russia since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The development of the American energy sector and the election of the isolationist President Joseph P. Kennedy in 2024 contributed to a sudden American military withdrawal from the region in the summer of 2025.
===2025-2050===
After the United Islamic Republic conquered the Arabian Peninsula during the Third Persian Gulf War, the entire Persian Gulf became the exclusive territorial waters of the UIR making Tehran the world's energy superpower.
Category:Regions
Category:Gulfs
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