A US aircraft carrier crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, a strategic passage that Iran regularly threatens to block, as Washington threatens to restore UN sanctions against Tehran.
The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, accompanied by two guided-missile cruisers and a destroyer, “completed a crossing of the Strait of Hormuz on September 18 to enter the GulfThe US 5th Fleet said in a statement.
The Nimitz, the first American aircraft carrier to cross in the region since December 2019, will participate in the operations of the anti-jihadist coalition in the Middle East, said the 5th Fleet.
«The presence of an aircraft carrier, an eminently flexible force, demonstrates the ability of the US Navy to fly, navigate and operate wherever international law permits to support operations.Coalition, said Vice-Admiral Samuel Paparo, Commander of the 5th Fleet.
The United States has planned to restore, alone and against all, international sanctions against Tehran lifted in 2015 in return for the Iranian commitment not to acquire atomic weapons. These include an embargo on conventional arms which expires in October and which Washington has failed to extend within the Security Council.
Almost all of the other members of the United Nations Security Council deny the United States the right to use this so-called mechanism.snapback”, On the grounds that they withdrew in 2018 from the Iranian nuclear agreement that established it. But the head of the American diplomacy Mike Pompeo assured that Washington would do “everything necessary to ensure that these sanctions are applied and respected».
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