Category: War, from Wikidata’s classes “military campaign”, “armed conflict”
Tanker war
Part of: Iran–Iraq War
Wikidata classes on our event-class list: military campaign, armed conflict (all its classes: Wikidata item)
The tanker war, part of the larger Iran–Iraq War, was a series of military attacks by Iran and Iraq against merchant vessels in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz from 1981 to 1988. Iraq was responsible for 283 attacks. Iran accounted for 168.
Text retrieved 2026-10-06 from Wikipedia.
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APA 7
Tanker war. (2026, September 4). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tanker_war&oldid=1373155338
MLA 9
“Tanker war.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 4 Sept. 2026, en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tanker_war&oldid=1373155338.
Chicago (note)
Wikipedia, “Tanker war,” last modified September 4, 2026, 09:04 (UTC), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tanker_war&oldid=1373155338.
Chicago (shortened note)
Wikipedia, “Tanker war.”
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This event on Middle East, 1900–present: https://middleeast.events/event/tanker-war
If you use the map’s borders: CShapes 2.0 - historical country borders. Schvitz, G., et al. (2022). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. https://icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes/ (modified by middleeast.events); West Bank Areas A/B/C: UN OCHA / HDX "Oslo Agreement" Areas A/B/C (West Bank). Distributed under the legacy HumanitarianResponse.info terms: non-commercial use with credit to UN OCHA. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/state-of-palestine-other-0-0-0-0-0; some corrected border points: GeoNames - CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). https://www.geonames.org/
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