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The US is carefully monitoring the state of affairs within the Center East amid rising tensions, the Pentagon mentioned Tuesday.
“The Division of Protection continues to carefully monitor the state of affairs within the Center East and take steps to mitigate the opportunity of regional escalation by Iran or its proxies,” spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder informed reporters.
The division’s current adjustment to the US navy posture within the area has enabled the US to bolster its drive safety, enhance assist for the protection of Israel, and to make sure the US is ready to reply to varied contingencies, he added.
The Pentagon introduced earlier this month that the US will deploy extra navy property to the Center East forward of attainable retaliation by Iran in opposition to Israel.
Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln Service Strike Group, outfitted with F-35C fighters, to speed up transit to the Central Command space of accountability, including to capabilities already offered by the USS Theodore Roosevelt Service Strike Group.
Moreover, he ordered the USS Georgia (SSGN 729) guided missile submarine to the Central Command area.
‘Centered on de-escalating tensions in area’
Ryder mentioned the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group and the USS Georgia are transiting to the US Central Command space of accountability, and “I do anticipate they will be arriving quickly.”
“As you’ve got heard us say beforehand, we stay intently targeted on de-escalating tensions within the area whereas additionally remaining targeted on securing a cease-fire as a part of a hostage deal to carry the entire hostages house and finish the struggle in Gaza,” Ryder mentioned.
Tensions are working excessive within the Center East following the July 31 assassination of the Palestinian group Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh within the Iranian capital of Tehran and Israel’s assassination of senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in an airstrike on a southern suburb of Beirut on July 30.
Hamas and Iran have accused Israel of finishing up Haniyeh’s assassination, whereas Tel Aviv has not confirmed or denied accountability.
Iran has vowed “harsh punishment” for Israel for Haniyeh’s killing on Iranian soil.
The escalation comes amid an ongoing Israeli offensive in opposition to the Gaza Strip which has killed greater than 40,000 Palestinians following an assault on Oct. 7 final 12 months by Hamas that killed 1,139 Israelis.
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