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However, the United States Navy said Saturday that there was no specific threat to the deployment of the USS Nimitz.
“There is no specific threat to the return of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group,” said Rebecca Rebarich, a spokeswoman for the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, in an emailed statement after the warship’s deployment on Wednesday. Reuters reported.
Western intelligence agencies have long suspected that Mohsen is behind Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program. Diplomats called him the “father of the Iranian bomb.” He was killed in a covert attack near Tehran on Friday.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has blamed Israel for Mohsen’s assassination.
Hussein Degan, military adviser to Iran’s supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini, vowed to strike at those involved in the attack like lightning.
The country’s Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, has called on the international community to “condemn this terrorist act by the State” by pointing the finger at Israel for the murder.
Observers say that no matter who is responsible for the attack on Mohsen, the incident, which preceded the departure of US President Donald Trump, has created a new threat of conflict between Iran and its enemies.
But the deployment of the warships is not about Iran, but about the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, Commander Rebarich said.
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