After concerns about a specific Iranian threat, the White House announces the deployment of an aircraft carrier and Air Force bombers
The USS Abraham Lincoln is shown at sea. By Dan Lamothe and Dan Lamothe Reporter covering the Pentagon and the U.S. military Email Bio Follow Missy Ryan Missy Ryan Reporter covering the Pentagon, military issues and national security Email Bio Follow May 6 at 2:35 PM A White House announcement that the United States will deploy an aircraft carrier and Air Force bombers to counter Iranian threats came into sharp focus on Monday, as U.S.
“We’ve been tracking a variety of threat streams for some time,” the official said, but Centcom detected “specific and credible” information that differed from those previous threats in recent days. The threats involved Iranian military forces and proxy forces and indicated potential actions against U.S. military personnel and non-military interests both on land and at sea.
John Bolton, President Trump’s national security adviser, said in a statement Sunday night that “in response to a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings," the United States would send the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to “send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force.
The Navy announced the deployment of the Lincoln on April 8, a week after it departed from Norfolk, Va. Croatian news reports suggested that the Lincoln would soon head into its port of Split, but a U.S. defense official said Monday that the carrier will now “expedite its arrival” in the Middle East “in order to defend American forces and interests in the region.” U.S. military officials did not immediately say whether the port visit will be canceled.
Becca Wasser, who studies the Middle East for the Rand Corp., said Bolton’s statement appeared to “leverage” an already planned deployment to the Middle East to send a message to Iran.
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