Washington has ordered more destroyers, cruisers, and an additional fighter squadron to the Middle East to defend Israel amid rising tensions with Iran, the US Defense Department said on Friday.
In addition, the USA has ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to relieve the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier currently deployed in the Middle East.
The announcement comes amid rising tensions after this week’s killing of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Both Hamas and Iran have blamed Israel for the attack and have promised revenge.
Iran also stated that the USA bears partial responsibility for the attack as a supporter and accomplice of Israel.
While West Jerusalem has neither confirmed nor denied any involvement, it has repeatedly threatened to take out the Hamas leadership over the group’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israeli soldiers and kidnapping of concert going citizens.
The subsequent Israel-Hamas war has sparked escalating tensions in the wider Middle East. Iran and Israel exchanged direct fire in April after Israel struck an Iranian Embassy compound in Syria.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered adjustments to the US military posture to help defend Israel, a Pentagon press release published on Friday said.
On top of the aircraft carrier group, the deployed forces will include additional ballistic missile defense-capable cruisers and destroyers, as well as an extra fighter squadron.
The Department is also taking steps to increase our readiness to deploy additional land-based ballistic missile defense. The US defense secretary informed his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, about the planned moves in a phone call on Friday morning, spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said earlier.
The secretary reiterated ironclad support for Israel’s security and informed the minister about additional measures to include ongoing and future defensive force posture changes that the department will take to support the defense of Israel.
The administration of President Joe Biden is convinced that Iran will counter attack Israel within days and is preparing to stop this, Axios reported on Thursday, citing three US officials.
Biden spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone to reiterate American support for West Jerusalem, according to a White House press release on Thursday.
The two leaders discussed efforts to support Israel’s defense against threats, including against ballistic missiles and drones, to include new defensive US military deployments.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
That Epstein list not being released still has the power to get what Israel wants from the West, any time.
The USA is amassing forces in the Middle East while Poland is amassing forces on the border with Belarus. Looks like WWIII is just around the corner. U.S. is planning to attack Iran while Poland is planning to attack Belarus. How long before the entire EU becomes a nuclear wasteland?
To be followed by a war over Taiwan against China.
With Russia’s weapons and millions of fighters at its disposal, Iran would be a hard nut for US and Israel to crack. This would accelerate the collapse of US economy and the destruction of Israel.
Like the Invasion of Iraq , the war in Ukraine , the coming war on Iran was planned well in advance , and by the same people . Neocon lunatics . 9/11 , the collapse ( pancaking ) of the twin towers , that was a controlled demolition.
Or a Hologram fantasy where we are all living in? Get out of the matrix while you can.
Aggression and mayhem are America’s sacred values imposed on defenseless nations on behalf of the savage Jewz. U.S. leaders are masters of wars, inflicting chaos and misery around the war on peoples of nations who can’t defend themselves.
Iran needs to ride it out for a month or two, letting Zionist occupied America and Israel burn resources waiting for Iran to do something — and then hit Israel with another barrage of flying objects against military bases, when they least expect it.