The United States says it is deploying an amphibious assault ship and a Patriot missile battery to the Middle East just a few days after it sent an aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the region.
“The Acting Secretary of Defense has approved the movement of USS Arlington (LPD-24) and a Patriot battery to US Central Command (CENTCOM) as part of the command’s original request for forces from earlier this week,” the Pentagon said in a statement on Friday.
"These assets will join the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a US Air Force bomber task force in the Middle East region in response to indications of heightened Iranian readiness to conduct offensive operations against US forces and our interests," the statement added.
John Bolton, the hawkish US national security adviser, said Sunday that the US was doing so in a "clear and unmistakable" message to Iran that “any attack on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force.”
Bolton said the decision was “in response to a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings.” PressTV-US sends carrier, bomber to Mideast amid rising tensions PressTV-US sends carrier, bomber to Mideast amid rising tensions The US says it is deploying an aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East in a "clear and unmistakable" message to Iran.
Meanwhile, a senior Iranian military official said on Friday the Trump administration did not dare to wage a war on Iran despite its recent move.
The Americans think they can intimidate the Iranian nation and force officials to sit for talks by combining military rhetoric with sanctions and economic pressures, but the Iranian nation well knows the scenario, and considers the US untrustworthy, said Brigadier General Yadollah Javani, a political head of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).
The move by the US comes as it had earlier vowed to cut Iran’s oil exports down to zero, prompting Tehran to warn that it will not allow any other country to export oil through the Strait of Hormuz if Tehran cannot sell its crude.
The US administration said in a statement on April 22 that buyers of Iranian oil must stop their purchases by May 1 or face sanctions. The move ended six months of waivers, which allowed Iran’s eight biggest buyers -- Turkey, China, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan -- to continue importing limited volumes.
#1: Pinguinite To: Tatarewicz (#0)
That is a virtual declaration of war against Iran.
Pinguinite posted on 2019-05-10 23:42:23 Reply Private Reply
#2: hondo68 To: Pinguinite, Tatarewicz (#1)
AFAIK, Turkey, China and Iraq have vowed to keep buying oil from Iran. Likely others will defy Emperor Donald's Imperial Decree too.
hondo68 posted on 2019-05-11 00:00:59 Reply Private Reply
#3: Pinguinite To: hondo68 (#2)
It's not really Trump doing it. It's Bolton, Pompeo, and the deep state, which I suppose includes Israel. Left on his own, Trump wouldn't be doing this, but he's surrounded himself with the swamp.
Pinguinite posted on 2019-05-11 00:23:44 Reply Private Reply
#4: Horse To: hondo68, Pinguinite, Tatarewicz (#2)
Horse posted on 2019-05-11 03:05:21 Reply Private Reply
#5: hondo68 To: Pinguinite (#3)
hondo68 posted on 2019-05-11 09:01:58 Reply Private Reply
#6: Pinguinite To: hondo68 (#5)
True enough. But it does show a president's inclinations are often not enough to effect change.
Pinguinite posted on 2019-05-11 10:37:23 Reply Private Reply
#7: Rotara To: Pinguinite, hondo, All (#3)
ZionDon was gifted 10s of millions of $$$ by Sheldon Adelson to destroy Iran for Zionist Izrael.
His Son in Law, Jared Ultra-Zionist Kushner, Greater Yisrael-settlement investor/builder and all around dual citizen schmuck, is TIGHT with Soros. (Never mentioned 🤑)
Trump owes all his bailouts to the Khazar Banskter-mafia.
The Populist campaign staff was all thrown overboard shortly after inauguratuon.
No... ZionDon is just another actor in this Kabuki Theater.
The "Alt Right" got played. Global War against remaining anti-Zionist Axis states is imminent.
And few in AmeriKa are bothered... because, after all, the hodge podge leaving the USD behind are an assortment of World Communists / Dictators.
There is no good end in this, at all.
Rotara posted on 2019-05-11 13:03:26 Reply Private Reply
#8: Lod To: Rotara (#7)
Lod posted on 2019-05-11 13:08:02 Reply Private Reply
#9: Rotara To: Lod (#8)
Death lost itz sting for us, my Brother.
Be not shaken. You already share in that victory.
Rotara posted on 2019-05-11 13:15:20 Reply Private Reply
#10: IRTorqued To: Pinguinite, hondo68 (#6)
if donnie were inclined toward change he would not have hired any of the shits he has.
IRTorqued posted on 2019-05-12 19:29:57 Reply Private Reply
#11: Tatarewicz To: IRTorqued (#10)
You're overlooking the from-the-shadows influence of a Zionist-sponsored Congress,
Tatarewicz posted on 2019-05-16 02:52:28 Reply Private Reply
#12: BTP Holdings To: Tatarewicz (#11)
When I work for State of Illinois, we had this big shot engineer that wrote an Op-Ed for Chicago Tribune titled I Am A Zionist.
He was in the yard one time afterward and his car was dirty. I wrote WASH ME on it. When he saw it he started jumping up and down and screaming. They made the yard toady wash his car. ROTFLMAO!
BTP Holdings posted on 2019-05-16 05:08:57 Reply Private Reply