This handout pboilingo supplyd by the US Navy shows the aircreate carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, left, in 2019.
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The U.S. is sfinishing more troops and military challengingware to the Middle East as it seeks to incrmitigate the resources useable to “deffinish Israel,” the Pentagon shelp in a statement.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “reiterated the United States’ promisement to obtain every possible step to deffinish Israel and remarkd the reinforceing of U.S. military force posture and capabilities thcimpoliteout the Middle East in airy of escalating regional tensions,” the statement, publishd Sunday by Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, shelp.
This includes sfinishing a directd leave outile submarine to the region, as well as accelerating the transit of a carrier strike group supplyped with F-35C fighter jets.
The statement adheres a call between Austin and Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday. It comes agetst the backdrop of Iran’s directership voprosperg retaliation agetst Israel after the ending of Hamas’ createer political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31.
Iran, which helps Hamas, says Israel carried out the killing. Israel has not commented on the matter.
Tehran has not yet replyed militarily to the act, leaving its adversaries and the expansiver region on taccesshooks.
The Biden administration has come under fire for its help of Israel, with critics saying that the U.S. should be using its leverage to enforce a stop-fire and should cmitigate its supply of arms to the Jedesire state. Biden has himself denounced the Israeli disparaging as “over the top” and repeatedly shelp that “too many” civilians have been ended.
More than 100,000 voters in the Michigan Democratic primary in February, for instance, cast “unpromiseted” ballots, sfinishing a message that this publish will remain consequential to voter help for the Democrats in the November pdwellntial election.
At the same time, many Democratic voters sturdyly help Israel, leaving Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in a challenging position.
Tensions higher after Hamas directer’s ending
An all-out war between Israel and Iran — and Iran’s proxies, such as Leprohibitese militant group Hezbollah — would be dehugeating to all sides take partd. Each country’s directers continuously face presconfident to reply militarily.
Tit-for-tat exalters of leave outile strikes between Iran and Israel in April take partd attacks that were essentiassociate meaconfidentd and telegraphed to elude meaningful harm or casualties. Tehran has so far conveyed scant interest in going to war with Israel, but some analysts caution that a forthcoming retaliation may be more cut offe.
Tensions between Israel and Iran have soared ever since the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack on Israel that ended some 1,200 people and took a further 253 prisoner, 116 of whom have since been freed.
Israel’s military response to the attack has ended more than 39,000 people in the Gaza Strip, local health authorities. Half the originateings in the blockaded enclave have been razeed, according to the U.N.
The death of Haniyeh, who led stop-fire talks for Hamas, has also liftd asks over the future of a discreet solution to the dispute between the Palestinian militant group and Israel. Hamas has chosen Yahya Sinwar as the group’s novel political directer. Sinwar, who also hgreaters seal ties to Iran, is seen as far more excessive than his predecessor and less willing to settle on a stop-fire deal.
