U.S. Deploys Aircraft Carrier To The Middle East Over Intelligence Concerns That Iran Is Planning To Attack U.S. Forces

Daily Mail/AP: John Bolton says the US is deploying an aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East as a warning to Iran over possible planned attack on American forces

* US will deploy a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East
* Move aims to send a clear message to Iran that any attack on U.S. interests or its allies will be met with 'unrelenting force,' U.S. national security adviser said
* Amid rising tensions between the US and Iran, Bolton said the decision was 'in response to a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings'

A White House decision to dispatch an aircraft carrier and other military resources to send a message to Iran followed "clear indications" that Iranian and Iranian proxy forces were preparing to possibly attack U.S. forces in the region, a defense official told the Associated Press.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information, said the Pentagon approved the deployments and that U.S. forces at sea and on land were thought to be the potential targets. The official declined to be more specific.

White House national security adviser John Bolton said in a statement Sunday night that the U.S. is deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the U.S. Central Command region, an area that includes the Middle East.

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