Yesterday’s decision to send the USS Theodore Roosevelt and assorted support ships to the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Yemen, was officially done to help with the naval blockade of the besieged Yemenis. Officials are conceding however it’s mostly about Iran.
Pentagon officials cited the movement of a small Iranian naval convoy in the vicinity as a “factor” in the deployment, saying putting the mass of US ships off the Yemen coast gives them “options.”
The Pentagon has also said F/A-18 Hornets are being deployed toward the Iranian convoy to conduct “reconnaissance,” though the State Department insisted that reports they might intercept the ships is “blatantly untrue.”
There’s no indication the Iranian ships were/are doing anything untoward, though the US similarly expressed alarm at a two-ship Iranian convoy engaged in anti-piracy operations off the Somali coast for getting sort of close to Yemeni waters.
The Pentagon is justifying the move as all about Iran, but Yemen’s Houthis see the move more practically as a threat to them, adding yet another country to the naval blockade which is keeping food shipments out of the country.
Nice to see the U.S. support the barbarians of Saudi Arabia but that old saying misery loves company.
It has all been part of the plan for well over a decade now as you will hear from one of the horses mouth!
General Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned – Seven Countries In Five Years
"This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." I said, "Is it classified?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well, don't show it to me." And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, "You remember that?" He said, "Sir, I didn't show you that memo! I didn't show it to you!"
General Wesley Clark Asked About 7 Country War Plan