US EditionUS Deploys Second Aircraft Carrier From Caribbean to Middle East Amid Iran Tensions: Report
- On Thursday, the USS Gerald R. Ford was ordered to sail from the Caribbean Sea to the Middle East, a person familiar with the plans said.
- Amid talk of sending a second carrier strike group, Trump discussed naval options earlier in the week with Axios, and held lengthy talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, urging pressure on Tehran.
- The USS Gerald R. Ford set out on deployment in late June 2025, meaning the crew will have been deployed for eight months in two weeks, after moving from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean last October.
- The move places two carrier strike groups in the Middle East, boosting U.S. naval presence there, but appears at odds with the national security strategy emphasizing the Western Hemisphere.
- With Iran and the United States holding indirect talks in Oman last week, Trump said he expects a deal 'over the next month,' linking diplomacy to military moves.
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The US President regularly wavered the threat of military intervention in Iran in recent weeks, especially since the bloody repression of protests that have shaken the regime.
US sending world’s biggest aircraft carrier to Middle East as tensions with Iran increase
The U.S. is sending the world’s largest aircraft carrier to the Middle East, joining the USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group already positioned in the U.S. Central Command (Centcom) area, as tensions between Washington and Tehran ratchet up.
Once the renamed Donroe doctrine (by Monroe) has been imposed in the Caribbean, the result of the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro—now another resident in Brooklyn (although in a jail)—and Delcy Rodríguez installed at the head of Venezuela, U.S. President Donald Trump has set a new course in his war threat. Iran is at the center of the target.Continue reading...
Trump warned Iran on Thursday that failing to reach a deal with his administration would be "very painful" for Tehran. Iran and the United States held indirect talks in Oman last week but they yielded no results.
It is known which aircraft carrier the US will send to the Middle East. It is the largest aircraft carrier in the world, the USS Gerald R. Ford, which will support the already deployed USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group. The aircraft carrier is currently located near Venezuela.
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