The United States deploys ships in the Red Sea to prevent Iran from seizing oil tankers

more than 3,000 soldiers Americans they reached the Red Sea aboard landing ships, in a new deployment to deter Iran to seize oil tankers, the US Navy announced Monday.

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This operation strengthens the deployment of US forces in the Gulfa strategic area for international hydrocarbon traffic.

Irana country in direct confrontation with the United States, stated that the US military deployment in the area “never provided security” and that “the interests [de Washington] in this region they always pushed him to feed instability and insecurity”.

The military came to sea Red Sunday aboard the “USS Bataan” and the “USS Carter Hall”, indicated the fifth fleet of the US Navy it’s a statement.

“With these actions, USA demonstrate your commitment to guarantee freedom of navigation and deter Iran from carrying out destabilizing activities.”add.

“These units bring significant flexibility and operational capacity to our work (…) of activity deterrence destabilizing actions and the appeasement of regional tensions caused by the harassment and seizure of merchant ships by Iran”told AFP the commander Tim Hawkinsspokesperson for the fifth fleet.

According to us militaryIran has seized or attempted to seize almost 20 ships with international pavilion in the region in the last two years.

Source: Elcomercio

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