Confrontation escalates
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and White House National Security Adviser John Bolton believe that Iran appears to be preparing for launching a series of attacks against US troops and other interests in the region in retaliation for the White House’s decision to classify Iran’s hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group alongside ISIS, Hamas, and al-Qiada, as well as its closest ideological and sectarian ally, Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The US has over 5,000 troops in Iraq and hundreds in Syria and has also deployed the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln to the Near East theatre of operations in to counter the threat “posed by Iranian regime forces”.
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