France’s aircraft carrier strike group is moving south of the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea in preparation for a potential French-British mission in the Strait of Hormuz, the French armed forces said Wednesday.
The deployment puts Europe’s most powerful warship within reach of a strait whose closure has come to epitomize the war in Iran — choking a fifth of the world’s oil and triggering what the International Energy Agency calls the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.
