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This content was published on November 28, 2020 – July 17:57,
(AFP)
Washington ordered the US aircraft carrier “USS Nimitz” with its group of warships to return to the Gulf region, but a spokeswoman for the US Navy denied on Saturday that this return was linked to any “threat” after the murder of a nuclear scientist Iranian.
Tensions rose dramatically in the region after the murder of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on Friday, for which no one has yet claimed responsibility. Yet Iran held Israel, a close ally of the United States, responsible.
US Fifth Fleet spokeswoman Rebecca Rebarich told France Press that the return of the group of warships on Wednesday, led by the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, which operates on a nuclear-powered propulsion system, is not linked to any “specific threat”.
“There were no specific threats that led to the return of the Nimitz carrier strike group,” it said in a statement.
“Nimitz’s return focuses on + Centcom + ‘s ability to remain in a state of readiness and readiness to maintain regional stability and security,” he added.
The Pentagon previously said the group would provide combat support and air cover with the withdrawal of thousands of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan in mid-January, ordered by President Donald Trump.
Two thousand soldiers will be withdrawn from Afghanistan and 500 from Iraq, so the remaining number of deployed soldiers will be around 2,500 in each country.
And the fleet led by Nimitz, one of the world’s largest warships, joined Australia, India and Japan in scheduled exercises in the Arabian Sea.
The Fifth Fleet’s Twitter account showed images of fighters taking off from Nimitz for sorties on Saturday.
The carrier group usually consists of a cruiser, a fleet of destroyers, and a squadron of fighter jets.
