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Trump’s Middle East armada aims to exert maximum pressure on Iran’s regime
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A US naval strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has deployed to Middle Eastern waters, the United States said on Jan 26.
PHOTO: AFP
- Amid Iranian protests, Trump moved a US carrier group near Iran, prompting IRGC threats of regional war if attacked, and neighbouring countries being considered hostile if used.
- Trump aims to pressure Iran into concessions, demanding it abandon its nuclear enrichment programme and cap its ballistic missile programme, using military assets for a 'concrete outcome.'
- With a weakened Iranian economy, Trump may tighten the economic noose by blocking oil exports or targeting IRGC commanders to weaken the theocratic government.
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LONDON - Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has accused the United States of “stoking instability” a US carrier group
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – the ultimate defenders of Iran’s theocratic regime – went even further by threatening that any US attack on the country would lead to an all-out regional war.
