The US is deploying a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East to send a clear message to Iran
The United States is deploying a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East to send a clear message to Iran that any attack on US interests or its allies will be met with "unrelenting force", US national security adviser John Bolton says.Amid rising tensions between the United States and Iran, Bolton said the decision was "in response to a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings".
It marked the latest in a series of moves by US President Donald Trump's administration against Iran in recent weeks.Washington has said it will stop waivers for countries buying Iranian oil, in an attempt to reduce Iran's oil exports to zero. It has also blacklisted Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Bolton, who has spearheaded an increasingly hawkish US policy on Iran, did not provide any other details.
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