USA will take “measures” if Iran threatens their interests in the Middle Eastwill strengthen your air defense capability in the region in the coming days and has “additional” troops ready for deployment in case of “contingencies,” the Pentagon reported this Sunday.
According to a statement, the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austinassured today that “the United States is determined to prevent Iran, its partners and representatives backed by Iran from taking advantage of the situation or expanding the conflict” that has intensified in recent days with Israel’s bombings in Lebanon.
Austin highlighted that If Iran or its allies “They use this moment to attack staff or American interests in the regionThe US will take all necessary measures to defend its people.
The note indicates that the Department of Defense It will “further reinforce” its air defense capabilities in the region “in the coming days” and has “additional” troops ready to deploy in case it has to respond to “various contingencies.”
Despite the tension in its stance, the Pentagon maintains that Austin and agency leaders remain focused on “the de-escalation through deterrence and diplomacy“, as well as in “the protection of American citizens and forces” and the “defense of Israel.”
The statement comes after the Israeli Army announced today that it killed more than twenty members of the political and militia group Hezbollah in the massive bombing in Beirut on Friday in which their top leader was also assassinated, Hasan Nasrallahand to the commander of the southern front, Ali Garlic.
In it attack A general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard was also assassinated, Abbas Nilforushana death that today the Foreign Minister of that country, Abás Araqchí, said “will never go unanswered.”
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In the last two weeks, Israel has launched a series of Unprecedented attacks on Hezbollah’s main strongholds that leave more than a thousand dead, 6 thousand injured and around one million internally displacedaccording to official data.
