Trump confirmed the dispatch of the US fleet to Iran “just in case”
The United States has sent a large naval force to the Middle East, Donald Trump said, commenting on the increased American presence off the coast of Iran.
According to him, the decision was made preemptively. “We have a lot of ships heading in that direction just in case… I would prefer nothing happens, but we are monitoring them very closely,” he told reporters.
Reuters sources clarified that the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and several guided-missile destroyers will arrive in the region in the coming days. According to the agency, the ships departed from the Asia-Pacific region last week, indicating the operation was pre-planned and not a spontaneous reaction to recent events.
