The Pentagon announced on Thursday that the USS Theodore Roosevelt is returning to the US after arriving in the Middle East in July due to concerns over the Iranian threat to Israel in response to the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
The Washington Post reported that the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, which arrived in the Gulf of Oman a few weeks ago, will remain in the area as a deterrent to Iran.
U.S. commanders in the Middle East claim that “the presence of U.S. aircraft carriers and their accompanying warships is an effective deterrent in the Middle East,” especially against Iran.
For several months earlier this year, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower was deployed in the Red Sea to assist Israel and serve as a deterrent against the Houthis.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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The threat level to the Iranians and the is shrinking. Israel is tearing itself apart, as is America. The American military is showing signs of being overstressed, and neither presidential candidate appears likely to take firm measures against the Iranians. They have established the ability to block traffic through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, and there is nothing the US can do to stop them – that is a major victory for them and a major defeat for the United States and its allies. They just celebrated one the most joyful anniversaries on their calendar (Sept. 11) and they have another one (Oct. 7) coming up. So yes, the “threat level” is down. Unfortunately for the Israelis, the Jews and the Americans – it is way up and alarms should be sounding.