DONALD Trump is piling the pressure on Iran with the “largest US build-up of kit since the Gulf Wars” as an American armada assembles in the Middle East.
The surge in military activity in the past 48 hours is being called the largest deployment of the US Air Force in decades.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner watch flight operations on USS Abraham Lincoln which lies in wait on the Arabian SeaCredit: AFP
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened Iran with strikes if it does not agree to a deal on nukesCredit: Anadolu via Getty Images
An F/A-18F Super Hornet lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian SeaCredit: US NAVY/AFP via Getty Images
And America’s biggest aircraft carrier is just days away from Iran, according to the UK Defence Journal .
The huge USS Gerald R. Ford will join the USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group already in the region, putting two full carrier battle groups within reach of Tehran.
It comes as for the first time since the Eighties, hitting back at US threats.
Tyrant Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lurking in the Persian Gulf yesterday in another escalation of tensions in the region.
The US’s growing armada lies in wait as Washington pressures Tehran to do a deal on nukes.
Iran’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi said today that Iran was “drafting” a framework for talks with the US.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright warned that Washington would stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions “one way or another”.
He told reporters: “They’ve been very clear about what they would do with nuclear weapons. It’s entirely unacceptable.”
Iran and the US held talks in Geneva on Tuesday after diplomatic efforts collapsed into .
Araghchi said that Iran and the US had agreed on “guiding principles” but US Vice President disagreed, saying Tehran had not acknowledged all of Washington’s “red lines”.
Fears of a US strike are growing in the region as American kit and forces build up.
Israel is on high alert and expects Trump to strike Iran “soon”, believing that the Ayatollah’s regime will never accept US demands.
A diplomatic source was quoted by Al Jazeera as saying: “American patience with Iranian delays may run out faster than Tehran thinks.”
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Khamenei has claimed that “the strongest army in the world might sometimes receive such a slap that it cannot get back on its feet”.
He threatened to sink US warships “to the bottom of the sea”.
Ayatollah said: “They constantly say we have sent an aircraft carrier towards Iran.
“Very well, an aircraft carrier is certainly a dangerous machine, but more dangerous than the carrier is the weapon that can send it to the bottom of the sea.”
It is thought that the dictator is posturing in an effort to appease a restless home crowd and signal the potential fallout for the world economy if the United States goes through with threats to attack.
Iran and Russia will also be conducting navy drills in the Sea of Oman and the northern Indian Ocean on Thursday, according to Iranian Fars news agency.
Both Washington and Tehran are refusing to call off the escalating military tensions.
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