Jask is a city in and the capital of Jask County

Jask County

Jask County is a county in Hormozgan Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Jask. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 75,769, in 16,667 families. The county is divided into three districts: the Central District, Bashagard District, and Lirdaf District. The county has one...

, Hormozgan Province

Hormozgan Province

Hormozgan Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the south of the country, facing Oman. Its area is , and its provincial capital is Bandar Abbas...

, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 11,133, in 2,406 families.

Jask is a port town, about 1050 miles (1,689.8 km) south of Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

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situated on the Gulf of Oman

Gulf of Oman

The Gulf of Oman or Sea of Oman is a strait that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait of Hormuz, which then runs to the Persian Gulf. It is generally included as a branch of the Persian Gulf, not as an arm of the Arabian Sea. On the north coast is Pakistan and Iran...

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It serves as the capital of Jask County

Jask County

Jask County is a county in Hormozgan Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Jask. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 75,769, in 16,667 families. The county is divided into three districts: the Central District, Bashagard District, and Lirdaf District. The county has one...

, and is the site of a base of the Iranian Navy

Islamic Republic of Iran Navy

The Iranian Navy has traditionally been the smallest branch of Iran's armed forces and is designed mainly for securing its own ports and coast.- Overview :...

 which opened on October 28, 2008.
The base's position provides the Iranian Navy with the capability to close the Strait of Hormuz

Strait of Hormuz

The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow, strategically important waterway between the Gulf of Oman in the southeast and the Persian Gulf. On the north coast is Iran and on the south coast is the United Arab Emirates and Musandam, an exclave of Oman....

 in order to block the entry of an "enemy" into the Persian Gulf

Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf, in Southwest Asia, is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.The Persian Gulf was the focus of the 1980–1988 Iran-Iraq War, in which each side attacked the other's oil tankers...

. Admiral Habibollah Sayyari remarked on the base's opening that Iran was "creating a new defence front in the region, thinking of a non-regional enemy."

The port of Jask is also the proposed end of the Neka-Jask pipeline

Neka-Jask pipeline

The Neka–Jask pipeline is a proposed oil pipeline in Iran. If constructed, it will transport crude oil from Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan; Turkmenistan and Russia through port of Neka on the Caspian Sea to Jask on the Gulf of Oman. The planned capacity of the pipeline is of crude oil. It is expected to...

. The city has an airport.