US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed international efforts to secure the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf from Iran’s illegal acts.In a series of tweets yesterday, Mr Pompeo thanked the UAE, Bahrain, the UK, Albania, Lithuania, Australia and Saudi Arabia for “protecting one of the world’s most critical shipping lanes” from what he called Iranian pirates of the strait, using the hashtag #piratesofhormuz in reference to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) .