{"id":65620,"date":"2023-08-07T17:57:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T22:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65620"},"modified":"2023-08-07T17:57:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T22:57:24","slug":"3000-us-troops-enter-gulf-region-in-latest-escalation-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65620","title":{"rendered":"3,000 US Troops Enter Gulf Region In Latest Escalation With Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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3,000 US Troops Enter Gulf Region In Latest Escalation With Iran<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Two American warships with\u00a0over 3,000 newly deployed US military personnel\u00a0<\/strong>between them have entered the Red Sea, new statements confirm Monday, as part of the Pentagon’s efforts to\u00a0thwart Iranian seizures of international vessels<\/strong>\u00a0in regional waters.<\/p>\n

The US Fifth Fleet announced Monday the ships have transited the Suez Canal with the fresh deployment of sailors and Marines. The Bahrain-based command said the USS Bataan and USS Carter Hall warships provide “greater flexibility and maritime capability” in ensuring the safety of global shipping in the Gulf and Mideast area of operations.<\/p>\n

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The statement further said the new troops and warships will seek to “deter destabilizing activity and de-escalate regional tensions caused by Iran\u2019s harassment and seizures of merchant vessels.”\u00a0Both US warships are\u00a0amphibious assault-style vessels with rapid deployment capabilities of both Marines and helicopters, and other assets.<\/p>\n

It comes after the Pentagon has\u00a0tallied that over 20 internationally-flagged tankers have been either seized or harassed by Iran’s military<\/strong>\u00a0over the last two years, particularly in the vital Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

Last week the Pentagon announced an unconventional and controversial plan to “deploy a security guard composed of Marines on board commercial tankers<\/strong>\u00a0passing through and near the Strait of Hormuz, to form an additional layer of defense for these ships,” according to Fifth Fleet spokesman Tim Hawkins.<\/p>\n

But there are legal questions and hurdles to such a proposal, still reportedly being mulled – given the US Marines would be dealing with various foreign vessels, and presumably some would not give permission for them to board. It further remains unclear\u00a0whether the Marines would only provide security details on US-flagged tankers<\/strong>, or among other close Western allies such as British-flagged vessels.<\/p>\n

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3,000 US Troops Enter Gulf Region In Latest Escalation With Iran Two American warships with\u00a0over 3,000 newly deployed US military personnel\u00a0between them have entered the Red Sea, new statements confirm Monday, as part of the Pentagon’s efforts to\u00a0thwart Iranian seizures of international vessels\u00a0in regional waters. The US Fifth Fleet announced Monday the ships have transited […]<\/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":[441,9311,827,834,11226],"class_list":["post-65620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-iran","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65620","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=65620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65621,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65620\/revisions\/65621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}