{"id":41250,"date":"2018-12-03T20:45:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T01:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41250"},"modified":"2018-12-03T20:47:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T01:47:50","slug":"u-s-aircraft-carrier-heads-to-persian-gulf-in-show-of-force-after-iran-ballistic-missile-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41250","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Aircraft Carrier Heads To Persian Gulf In “Show Of Force” After Iran Ballistic Missile Test"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Aircraft Carrier Heads To Persian Gulf In “Show Of Force” After Iran Ballistic Missile Test<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Days after Iran unveiled\u00a0its\u00a0first stealth destroyer<\/a> in a televised ceremony on Saturday which saw the warship launched into operation in the Persian Gulf, and after the US condemned Iran’s test firing a medium-range nuclear capable ballistic missile on Sunday, Pentagon officials have announced the U.S. is sending an\u00a0aircraft carrier strike group to the Persian Gulf in a show of force against Iran<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

US officials told the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>the USS John C. Stennis and support ships will arrive in the Middle East “within days”<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/em>which will bring a close what’s been described as the longest period in two decades that a carrier group was absent from the region. Specifically the unnamed officials identified the purpose as to “exhibit a show of force against Iran”<\/strong> at a moment tensions are soaring after Nov. 4 renewed sanctions targeting Iran’s energy sector. The White House has vowed that it will work with international allies to\u00a0reduce Iran’s oil exports to zero in continuing economic warfare that could easily spark direct military confrontation.<\/p>\n

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USS John C. Stennis nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, via Defence Blog<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The WSJ reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Stennis is scheduled to remain in the region for about two months, the officials said, spending most of that time in the Persian Gulf. Its presence \u201ccertainly provides a deterrence\u201d against any potentially hostile Iranian activity in the region\u2019s waters<\/strong>, one of the officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Responding to the unprecedented sanctions regimen after President Trump withdrew the US from the 2015 JCPOA, Iran’s military leadership has\u00a0over the past months issued a counter threat of blockading the vital Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, which would strangle global oil shipping<\/strong>. The US carrier presence inches the world closer to witnessing a major flare up in the gulf which could send the price of oil soaring.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Aircraft Carrier Heads To Persian Gulf In “Show Of Force” After Iran Ballistic Missile Test Days after Iran unveiled\u00a0its\u00a0first stealth destroyer in a televised ceremony on Saturday which saw the warship launched into operation in the Persian Gulf, and after the US condemned Iran’s test firing a medium-range nuclear capable ballistic missile on Sunday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[441,522,1129,827,23334,861],"class_list":["post-41250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-persian-gulf","tag-united-states","tag-us-aircraft-carrier","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41253,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41250\/revisions\/41253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}