{"id":1993332,"date":"2023-08-07T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T20:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3000-us-troops-deployed-to-red-sea-amid-iranian-attacks-on-merchant-vessels\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T16:18:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T20:18:53","slug":"3000-us-troops-deployed-to-red-sea-amid-iranian-attacks-on-merchant-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3000-us-troops-deployed-to-red-sea-amid-iranian-attacks-on-merchant-vessels\/","title":{"rendered":"3,000 US troops sent to Red Sea due to 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\">26<\/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%2F3000-us-troops-deployed-to-red-sea-amid-iranian-attacks-on-merchant-vessels%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=1993332&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<figure><figcaption>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Iranian Fast-Attack Crafts Swarm \u200cOil Tanker in the Arabian Gulf<\/h2>\n<h3>U.S. Military Responds\u200b with Troop Deployment<\/h3>\n<p>Fast-attack crafts\u2063 from Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary\u2064 Guard Corps Navy were captured on video as they swarmed \u200cthe \u2062Panama-flagged \u2062oil tanker Niovi in \u2062the Strait of Hormuz. This incident occurred in the early hours of May\u2064 3, 2023, as the tanker was \u200btransiting from Dubai to the port of Fujairah in the United\u200b Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>More than 3,000 U.S. military\u2064 personnel have now arrived\u2062 in the Red Sea\u200b in response to months of Iranian attacks on merchant ships in \u200dthe Persian Gulf. Members of the Navy and Marines arrived on the USS <em>Bataan<\/em> and \u200bUSS\u200d <em>Carter Hall<\/em> through the Suez Canal to counter Iran&#8217;s harassment and seizures of\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ships-stranded-in-ukraine-as-conflict-slows-un-rescue-efforts\/\" title=\"Ships stranded in Ukraine as conflict slows UN rescue efforts\">merchant vessels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3000-us-troops-deployed-to-red-sea-amid-iranian-attacks-on-merchant-vessels\/\" title=\"3,000 US troops sent to Red Sea due to Iranian attacks on ships.\">units add significant operational flexibility<\/a>\u200d and capability as we work alongside international partners to deter destabilizing activity and deescalate regional tensions caused \u200dby \u2062Iran\u2019s \u2064harassment and\u200d seizures of\u2064 merchant vessels earlier \u2064this year,&#8221; said Commander Tim\u2062 Hawkins, spokesman for \u200dthe U.S. Fifth Fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2063 United States&#8217; deployment of \u2063troops \u200cto the Middle East \u2062comes after Iran has \u2064for months harassed and attacked merchant ships in \u2064the Gulf of Oman. Some of the intercepted ships were bound for America to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eu-to-impose-complete-embargo-on-russian-oil\/\" title=\"EU to Impose Complete Embargo on Russian Oil\">deliver oil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a\u2064 vulnerability that Iran is trying to exploit, and is exploiting with\u200b these seizures,&#8221; one American official said.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Iranian navy commandos fast-roped onto the \u200cdeck and seized control of a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker in international waters in the\u200c Gulf of Oman. The Advantage Sweet,\u200b a Chinese-owned, Chevron-chartered vessel, had been bound for\u200d Houston carrying Kuwaiti crude oil.<\/p>\n<p>Video captured by the U.S.\u2063 Navy last \u2064month showed an Iranian warship firing on a\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-iranian-navy-opens-fire-on-oil-tanker\/\" title=\"VIDEO: Iranian Navy Attacks Oil Tanker\">commercial oil tanker<\/a> in\u200d the Gulf of Oman. The Iranian ship left\u2062 when a U.S. guided missile \u200bdestroyer\u200c arrived in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s government said the move is not about \u200d&#8221;security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The \u200dUS government\u2019s military \u200dpresence in the region has never created security.\u2064 Their interests in this region have always compelled them to \u200dfuel instability \u2063and insecurity,&#8221; said Nasser Kanani, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/earlier-detection-could-have-helped-contain-the-outbreak-who-finds-92-people-had-virus-like-symptoms-in-china-in-october-2019\/\" title=\"\u2018Earlier Detection Could Have Helped Contain The Outbreak\u2019: WHO Finds 92 People Had Virus-Like Symptoms In China In October 2019\">foreign ministry spokesman<\/a> for\u200b the Iranian government.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2063 deployment comes after \u2062the Iranian government detained a\u2064 fourth U.S. citizen last month, potentially\u200b complicating efforts by the\u200c U.S. government to negotiate their release.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Published under:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/iran\/\" title=\"View all posts in Iran\">Iran<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3, 2023. Iranian fast-attack crafts surround Panama-flagged oil tanker Niovi in the Strait of Hormuz. The video, captured by the U.S. Navy, shows the incident as the vessel travels from Dubai to Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1993333,"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-1993332","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\/1993332","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\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}