Further raising military tensions in the region around Iran, the USS Abraham Lincoln and its carrier strike group passed through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf as part of official talk of an “increased presence” in the region.
The US Navy statement on the matter insisted the passage into the Gulf was uneventful, and “does not represent escalation or a new policy toward Iran.” It is clear that Iran is not viewing this the same way.
With the arrival of a US aircraft carrier and its support ships, Iran began a major air defense drill along the coast, with the Army Air Defense forces preparing to coordinate defending against a potential attack.
The US has been adding troops, ships, and warplanes to the area around Iran’s frontier in recent months. Most of the times this is plainly escalatory, though in this case the Navy seems determined to insist that is not the case.
Sending a carrier battle group into what amounts to an oversized bathtub with thousands of missiles trained on it is not indicative of anything other than the Empire’s folly. They’re just trying to placate the stupid gulfies.
More “self defense” on the other side of the world.
Target practice for Iran….
The question for Iran will be how many EMPs needed to render that carrier group useless.