{"id":1976094,"date":"2023-07-18T11:17:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T15:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-sends-forces-to-middle-east-in-response-to-iranian-attacks-on-commercial-ships\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T11:18:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T15:18:32","slug":"us-sends-forces-to-middle-east-in-response-to-iranian-attacks-on-commercial-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-sends-forces-to-middle-east-in-response-to-iranian-attacks-on-commercial-ships\/","title":{"rendered":"US deploys troops to Middle East after Iranian attacks on ships."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-sends-forces-to-middle-east-in-response-to-iranian-attacks-on-commercial-ships%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1976094&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n  \u200b<\/p>\n<h2>The United States to \u2063Increase\u2063 Military Presence \u2064in \u200dthe Middle East<\/h2>\n<p> \u200c \u200d<\/p>\n<p>The United \u200dStates \u2064is taking action\u2064 to ensure\u2064 the safety of key waterways\u2064 in the Middle East.\u200d In\u200c response \u2063to \u2064Iran&#8217;s recent seizure and harassment of commercial\u2063 shipping vessels, \u200cthe Pentagon has announced that \u2063additional\u200d F-35\u200d and F-16 fighter jets, along with a warship, will\u2062 be \u2064deployed to\u200c the region.<\/p>\n<p>In\u200b May,\u200c the\u2064 White House \u200brevealed plans\u200b for increased activity \u200cin the area, but the\u2063 specifics were \u2063not disclosed\u2063 at the time. \u2062Pentagon spokeswoman\u200b Sabrina Singh\u2064 stated, \u2063&#8221;The [Pentagon]\u2063 is increasing our presence\u200d and \u200cability to\u2063 monitor \u2062the [Strait \u200dof \u200cHormuz] and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-simulates-attack-on-taiwan\/\" title=\"China Models Attack on Taiwan\">surrounding waters<\/a>.&#8221; The exact\u2063 locations and duration of\u2063 the \u2063deployment\u2064 have \u2062not been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>  \u200d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this\u200b month, \u200cthe \u200cU.S. Navy successfully\u200b prevented Iran from \u2062seizing two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-navy-thwarts-irans-attempt-to-seize-oil-tankers-after-american-managed-ship-fired-upon\/\" title=\"US Navy stops Iran's oil tanker seizure after attack on American-managed ship.\">commercial tankers<\/a> in \u2064the\u2064 Gulf\u2062 of Oman. These incidents \u2062highlight the \u200dongoing tensions\u200c between\u2064 the United States and \u2063Iran, which have\u200b resulted \u2062in multiple attacks on shipping\u2062 in the \u2064strategic Gulf waters since\u2064 2019.<\/p>\n<p>  \u2063<\/p>\n<p>About a fifth of the \u200bworld&#8217;s crude oil \u200band\u2064 oil products \u2064pass through the \u200cStrait\u2062 of\u200d Hormuz, \u200bmaking\u200d it a\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-sends-forces-to-middle-east-in-response-to-iranian-attacks-on-commercial-ships\/\" title=\"US deploys troops to Middle East after Iranian attacks on ships.\">crucial \u2064choke point<\/a>\u2062 between \u200bIran and Oman.<\/p>\n<p> \u200c <\/p>\n<h3>Published\u200b under:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n\u2064 \u200b   \u200d<\/p>\n<li><a \u200dhref=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/iran\/\" title=\"View all\u200b posts \u200bin Iran\">Iran<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>deploying additional military assets to the Middle East to ensure the security of vital water routes. As part of this effort, the US will dispatch more F-35 and F-16 fighter jets, as well as a warship. This move comes in response to Iran&#8217;s actions of seizing and harassing commercial ships, aiming to safeguard the region&#8217;s crucial waterways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1976095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}