Iran has issued a chilling threat to strike US troops in the Middle East as fears of war between Tehran and Washington grow.
Al-Alam news channel, owned by the state-owned media corporation Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, shared a video on X indicating the US military base of Eskan Village in Saudi Arabia as a surveilled target. Eskan Village is a US Air Force housing compound near Riyadh which was established after the 1991 Gulf War.
The USS Lincoln is presently stationed in the Middle East along with several other vessels. Trump also held discussions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday regarding their respective nations’ boundaries on nuclear negotiations with Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Trump said that « nothing definitive » was settled during his meeting with Netanyahu, but insisted that discussions with Iran should persist.
Latest news from US officials say the Pentagon is reportedly readying a second aircraft carrier for potential deployment to the Middle East. Currently, the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush is carrying out training exercises off the Virginia coast and « could potentially expedite those exercises, » officials said.
An official reportedly said to the WSJ that the order for deployment « could be issued in a matter of hours, » although no formal directive from Trump has been given as yet. The WSJ reported that the Pentagon is gearing up a carrier for deployment « in two weeks, likely from the East Coast. »
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