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Pentagon Readies “Contingency Plans” For Potential Escalation Against Iran<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Amid fears that the US is running headlong into yet another sure to be disastrous war in the Middle East, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told reporters Friday that the Pentagon is prepping “contingency plans” should things quickly escalate militarily<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you look at the situation\u2026\u00a015 percent of the world\u2019s oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz<\/strong>,\u201d Shanahan said as quoted in\u00a0The Washington Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cSo we obviously need to make contingency plans should the situation deteriorate. We also need to broaden our support for this international situation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pentagon indicated it’s further implementing plans to coordinate with America’s international allies in the event of military confrontation with Iran \u2014 <\/em>something which could prove difficult given the European Union has urged<\/a> “maximum restraint” following Thursday’s tanker attacks incident Washington quickly blamed on Iran. The UK has been the only exception, which immediately stood behind Pompeo and Trump’s assessment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil Market `Less Concerned’ With Iran Actions, Says U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably, as The Washington Times <\/em>reports further of Friday’s press briefing, “the Pentagon is planning for the possible deployment of additional U.S. forces <\/strong>to the Persian Gulf region in the event the threat from Iran worsens.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weeks ago as tensions began soaring in the region following John Bolton’s claimed intelligence of a “heightened threat” of Iran or its allies attacking nearby US troops, the Pentagon deployed the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group, at least 1500 extra troops, as well as B-52 bombers, drones, and patriot missile batteries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Likely the Pentagon will use the tanker incident to keep up the pressure on Tehran:\u00a0\u201cThe more information that we can declassify, the more information we can share, we will. And that’s our intent. And I think as you saw yesterday \u2014 doing it quickly,\u201d\u00a0Shanahan\u00a0continued<\/a>\u00a0in his statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pentagon Readies “Contingency Plans” For Potential Escalation Against Iran Amid fears that the US is running headlong into yet another sure to be disastrous war in the Middle East, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told reporters Friday that the Pentagon is prepping “contingency plans” should things quickly escalate militarily. \u201cWhen you look at the situation\u2026\u00a015 percent of […]<\/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":[9311,11226,862],"class_list":["post-46660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-us-pentagon","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46660","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=46660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46661,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46660\/revisions\/46661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}