The minesweeper Fulda has set sail from the Kiel-Wik naval base on the Baltic Sea bound for the Mediterranean where it will initially be integrated into a NATO mine countermeasures group. Its highly specialized equipment for tracking down and destroying sea mines could lend significant support to NATO 's anti-mining operations, should Germany's conditions for participating in an international operation in the Strait of Hormuz be met, and the Fulda would be in a more convenient position. Since the start of the US-Israel  war with Iran on February 28, the regime in the Iranian capital Tehran is suspected to have used mines to keep commercial ships from passing through one of the world's most important trade routes. The blockade has sent oil and liquefied natural gas prices soaring on the global market.…