US says sending ‘strike group’ to Middle East as ‘clear message’ to Iran
Tehran (KNA) - The United States is sending an aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East in a "clear and unmistakable" message to Iran, declared John Bolton, the hawkish US national security advisor.
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 Sunday statement.
The move, he said, is aimed at sending a "clear and unmistakable message" to Iran that "any attack on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force."
Bolton said the decision was "in response to a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings."
He said the US "is not seeking war" with Iran, but it is "fully prepared to respond to any attack", whether by proxy, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) or regular Iranian forces, Bolton said in a statement.
Source: PressTV