US deploys aircraft carrier strike group and bomber task force to Middle East in warning to Iran - US national security adviser John Bolton
Amid rising tensions between US and Iran, National Security Advisor John Bolton said the decision was"in response to a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings."
"In response to a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings, the United States is deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the US Central Command region," Bolton said in a statement, without specifying the nature of the alleged escalation by Tehran.
Washington has said it will stop waivers for countries buying Iranian oil, in an attempt to reduce Iran's oil exports to zero. It has also blacklisted Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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