Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan announced Monday that the Pentagon is dispatching 1,000 more troops to the Middle East in the wake of the blown-up oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.
According to Politico, the U.S. blames the attack on Iranian forces and sees it as a sign of impending strikes against American interests.
On Monday, Iran also announced its intent to exceed its nuclear stockpile restrictions spelled out in the 2015 deal. The Trump administration pulled the U.S. out of that compact in May 2018.
Correction: This post originally reported that the U.S. troops were being sent to Iran.
I don’t think this headline is correct, we are not sending troops “to Iran”…yet…
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." – George Orwell
How they gonna send them to Iran? What are they going to do, invade?
The sad part here is that Iran really is a bad actor, they’re taking advantage of how much Trump is hated and mistrusted to try to play games…
And we might stumble into a full war because of both idiots, but minus our key allies.
I don’t see Iran saying come on in to American troops. Where will they be stationed? Israel? Iraq? What kind of troops? Is this the start of Trump’s first diversionary war? This is a bad bad idea. Having troops there will only make Trump more eager to show how tough he is by using them. He won’t get hurt, of course, but i’m sure these soldiers and their families will be proud to have them risk everything to act on the instructions of a narcissist willing to use anyone and anything to advance his bid for re-election. Damn him.