14/9/2024–|Last update: 9/14/202410:39 PM (Makkah Time)
The US Secretary of Defense said Lloyd Austin The departure of the Roosevelt carrier and its battle group from the Middle East does not mean the end of the Iranian threat.
Austin told Air and Space Forces magazine that the United States still has more forces in the region than it did in April, when Iran launched its largest attack on Israel.
The defense minister noted that it is important for the United States and Israel to remain ready to deter Iran, as he put it.
The US Department of Defense (Pentagon) completed the mission on Thursday. aircraft carriers The USS Theodore Roosevelt and the destroyer USS Daniel Inouye are in the Middle East and have decided to return them to their base, after Washington strengthened its military presence in the region to protect Israel From possible Iranian attacks.
Following the assassination of the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitationIsmail Haniyeh in Tehran at the end of last July, and the assassination of the leader BHezbollah Fouad Shukr in Beirut the day before, threatened both Iran and Hezbollah with a harsh response to Israel.