The United States once protected ships from Iranian attacks in the Strait of Hormuz in the 1980s -- something that provides lessons Washington may rely on today with Iran's chokehold on the strait. During the Iran-Iraq war in 1987 and 1988, the United States Navy guided Kuwaiti oil tankers out to the open seas, as Associated Press reporter Jon Gambrell explains. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com​ This video may be available for archive licensing via