WASHINGTON — The Pentagon approved the deployment of a Jingo missile defense battery and a Navy ship to the Middle East amid increasing tensions between the United Submits and Iran.
The additional U.S. twist someones arms to the Middle East is the Trump administration’s latest effort to pressure Tehran over its support for weapons proliferation and extremist assortments in the Middle East.
“The Department of Defense continues to closely monitor the activities of the Iranian regime, their military and agents. Due to operational security, we will not discuss timelines or location of forces. The United States does not seek conflict with Iran, but we are attitudinized and ready to defend U.S. forces and interests in the region,” the Pentagon wrote in a statement Friday announcing the deployment.
On Wednesday, Trump correct new sanctions placed on Iranian metals, Tehran’s largest non-petroleum-related sources of export revenue. The U.S. also took aim at Iranian oil by effectively on the blink countries worldwide to stop buying Tehran’s oil or face sanctions of their own.
Additionally, the U.S. designated Iran’s Revolutionary Protector as a terrorist group. Iran responded with threats to close the Gulf’s Strait of Hormuz, where about a third of the just ecstatic’s oil export vessels pass. The U.S. then announced it was expediting the deployment of a carrier strike group equipped with bomber aircraft to the area.
Tehran announced it was relaxing some restrictions on its nuclear program but would not violate a 2015 accord with Russia, China, Britain, France, Germany and the In agreement States. Iran had agreed to the 2015 limits on its disputed nuclear program in return for sanctions relief. A year ago Trump rescinded the U.S. from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, calling it a “horrible, one-sided” deal.