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USS Abraham Lincoln ready for every eventuality

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epa07568969 A handout photo made available by the US Navy showing the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) conducting a replenishment-at-sea on 08 May 2019, with the fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 9), while MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopters assigned to the 'Nightdippers' of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 5, transfer stores between the ships. Abraham Lincoln is underway as part of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (ABECSG) deployment in support of maritime security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th, U.S. 6th and U.S. 7th Fleet areas of operation. Media reports on 14 May 2019 state that the US has deployed the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier and other ships to the Gulf of Oman and has sent a team of experienced investigators to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after the UAE Foreign Office reported on 13 May 2019 that four commercial vessels have been targeted by sabotage operations near UAE territorial waters. Saudi Arabia's energy minister Khalid al-Falih added that two Saudi oil tankers had been targeted in the attack. EPA-EFE/US NAVY / DVIDS / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

 

Fox News is reporting that the USS Abraham Lincoln is now on station in the northern Arabian Sea amid rising tension with Iran.

The USS Abraham Lincoln is accompanied by a strike group that also hundreds of Tomahawk cruise missiles ready to strike if any U.S. forces are attacked.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces in the region had been placed on “high alert,” but no evidence was presented to justify the elevated security posture.

Fox News reported that under pressure to explain the military build-up and change of posture, Pentagon officials say they are in the process of declassifying several satellite photos that they say shows cruise missiles aboard small Iranian vessels.

Pentagon officials have taken great pains to emphasize the new American forces sent to the region are to deter Iran, not start a war.

President Donald Trump has sought to put the brakes on a brewing confrontation with Iran in recent days, telling the acting defense secretary, Patrick Shanahan, that he does not want to go to war with Iran..

Mr. Trump’s statement, during a Wednesday morning meeting in the Situation Room, sent a message to his hawkish aides that he does not want the intensifying American pressure campaign against the Iranians to explode into open conflict.

 

Via Fox News / New York Times

 

 

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