The US deployment will be in response to threats from Iran and Iranian-backed militias after Israel allegedly assassinated Ismail Haniyeh on sovereign Iranian territory a few days ago. In April 2024, when Iran and Iranian-backed groups launched counter-attacks at Israel for killing IRGC-QF personnel in Syria, the US led a coalition that helped defend Israel from armed drones and missiles.
Source: carnegieendowment.org
Likudnik Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is doing everything he can to entangle the US in a military conflict with Iran. And military conflicts keep his corruption trial in abeyance.
Thank you Bibi for wasting American taxpayer dollars and jeopardizing US military personnel in the Middle East during this election year, as if Americans didn't suffer enough casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. IDF casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan = 0.
Sources:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-corruption-trial-resumes/
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/9/netanyahu-is-drawing-the-us-into-war-with-iran
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Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln Heads to Middle East as Iran Threatens Strikes Against Israel
news.usni.org
... West Coast carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is setting sail to the Middle East from the Pacific to relieve the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) and its strike group. Meanwhile, the Navy is sending additional ships to the region following threats from Iran, Pentagon officials announced on Friday evening.
"To maintain a carrier strike group presence in the Middle East, the Secretary has ordered the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group to replace the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, currently on deployment in the Central Command area of responsibility," reads the Pentagon statement.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, "has ordered additional ballistic missile defense-capable cruisers and destroyers to the U.S. European Command and U.S. Central Command regions. The Department is also taking steps to increase our readiness to deploy additional land-based ballistic missile defense."
The U.S. moves to bolster military presence in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East follows reports that Iranian military officials and proxy forces in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen will meet to discuss options to retaliate against Israel following the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. ...
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