Illustrative image. (U.S. Central Command)
President Donald Trump escalated again against Iran on January 22, saying that the United States has an “armada” heading toward the Islamic Republic.
“We have a big flotilla going in that direction, and we’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “We have a big force going toward Iran. I’d rather not see anything happen, but we’re watching them very closely.”
“We have an armada,” Trump added after claiming he “stopped 837 hangings a week earlier. “We have a massive fleet heading in that direction, and maybe we won’t have to use it. We’ll see.”
Since the start of the month, Trump has repeatedly threatened Iran over a wave of violent protests, which claimed the lives of at least more than 3,000 people.
Trump held off from attacking Iran last week as a result of requests by Arab countries, Turkey and even Israel, according to various reports. However, he still ordered the deployment of additional U.S. military assets into the Middle East, including the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier.
The carrier, which was originally deployed in the South China Sea, reportedly reached the Indian Ocean on January 23. It is carrying the CVW-9 Carrier Air Wing, which consists of eight squadrons flying F-35C Lightning II, F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, EA-18G Growlers, E-2D Hawkeyes, CMV-22B Ospreys and MH-60R/S Sea Hawks
Reuters reported that several guided-missile destroyers were also arriving in the Middle East, without providing any details. Currently, three Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers and perhaps a nuclear attack submarine are present in the region.
Satellite images from China’s MizarVision that surfaced online on January 22 also confirmed the deployment of 17 F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. The Central Command announced the deployment of the jets, which belong to the U.S. Air Force 494th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, in the Middle East two days earlier.
Click to see full-size image. (MizarVision)
Online flight trackers also revealed that there have been steady flights of C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft to the region. Some were even spotted in the images from Muwaffaq Salti.
According to the same flight trackers, there are currently no less than 20 KC-135 Stratotanker aerial tankers in the Middle East.
Additionally, the U.S. is sending more MIM-104 Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) systems to the Middle East to enhance missile defense, The Wall Street Journal reported recently.
Click to see full-size image. (MizarVision)
The cost of this military buildup is enough evidence that the U.S. will eventually attack Iran, using the protests, which have largely ended, as an excuse.
That’s being said, the military assets sent to the Middle East are still less than what we saw during previous rounds of escalation against Iran. The deployment will likely expand further, which means that the attack is likely still a few weeks away.
During this period, the U.S. could engage in talks with the Islamic Republic, but the chances of them reaching any agreement is non-existent.
Any U.S. attack on Iran will likely target nuclear and missile facilities, as well as facilities linked to drone production, in addition to the leadership of the Islamic Republic. Israel will likely join in. Fighting could go on for weeks, not just 12 days like the war from last June.
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usa cannot do nothing in the moment that iran attacks that air base in jordan or in another place using hundred of drones, cruise missile and supersonic ballistic missile, therefore they will not risk attacking iran while us planes and helicopters are deployed in that bases, moreover iran can attack using drones and ballistic and antiship missile the naval battle group in cooperation with houttis.
usa will have no air base to attack iran. no gulf state will agree and turkey will not support pre-emptive strike. killing khaminei will not destroy iran. only choise is israel and that would empower iranian regime. second choise is diego garcia. very expensive to bomb iran from 5000 km away.
it should be noted that the reform only affected the structure of the ground forces. the international legion of the main intelligence directorate of ukraine operates separately and continues to function as usual.
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at some point, which may be the case already, it is more beneficial for iran to attack first. the chinese and russians are risking its defeat if they ask it to hold back only for sake of not being seen as an aggressor.
your usual menage et trois trolling operation. transparent.
iran should attack and sweep all those bases right now
this will also deter israhell
but iran has been collaborative just like maduro was
tl;dr: natanyahu is a little pussy that needs uncle sam to do it’s dirty work, again.
and putin meets americans. nice eh?
look at all the putin fanboys here. american is only bad for others but not for pootin lol.
russia is probably stringing the amerikunts along….you know the weakness of trumpstein is his ego? i think everybody knows that.
ditto always the same game. always obvious to the point of insult.
so you get ‘insulted’ when the obvious is shoved in your face too often ? sounds as though you’re offended to the point of being victimised then.
a parlous situation for you indeed, being so sensitive and thin skinned.
i hope he gets arrested or blown away soon
blind leads blind one of the seven heads cut off fly straight to the death.bye bye babylon you bleed lots of prophets blood.now your time of reckoning has come.
like said before its only a matter of when this attack on iran happens and after only the lord knows.
what was the deal between putin and americans? let us attack iran and you get ukraine? why would putin meet americans anyways?
russian helped to jam starlink
another trilogy from thd troll
the troll and we really must knock that naughty clock that says 5 seconds is too late to edit that date.
and bounce signals off musk’s hardware to direct their new age drones in pookraine.
russkies being rooskies once again😄😄😛
this is true, but why not blow up the atlantic cables, and shoot down the satellites ? it do not seems to be any peaceful technology 😂 actually, technology have be used for to enslave humanity. its of course the admirer of a stoneage girl, who writes 🥰
might be just a ‘tribal’ thing. closed doors and on go the beanies.
too bad china and russia will let iran get smashed, you would think part of multipolarism would be not letting the other multis get destroyed by the (((americans)))
america hasn’t signed a 100 year war deal with ukraine. america didn’t not bother to to look at a peace deal.
it seems iran with help from russia & china lay a trap during recent protests in iran. they cut the internet for the masses, let starlink working, identified the users, then with russian/chinese hardware software cut starlink & identified & arrested a bunch of big mossciad fishes. that must be all the fuss about why trump wants to stop the hangings & is bluffing about attacking iran again. in my opinion they shouldn’t hang them, just put them in supermax prisons
yes let them live for now, may be they can be exchanged for maduro and his wife. othrwise…….
put them inside iran industrial& military plants as a human shields, because western countries love them
another menage et trois the power of three as the halliwell witches always said, so popular with the troll here.
russia helps nobody
besides they need the usa to be a bully, this puts them in a position to be the “good cop”
i hope iran isn’t counting on its “great ally” russia to help…hehehehe
hehehehehe????? are you ok.
i’m getting sand nigers jizz all day every day.
i don’t understand why the iranians don’t carry out a preemptive strike. that could end the situation to their advantage, instead of waiting until the us terrorists have everything prepared.
iran is many international agreements and may have more support and abilities than the pirate banker class is aware of.
get lost all treaties are nullified when war breaks out. you’ve been told before.
putin is a snake just like erdogan get help by iran with drones but remains trump puppet and shoe shiner.
russia, the self proclaimed christian nation on the side of mass murdering tyrants everywhere, lol
americans may soon tire of endless wars to support israeli land grabs and mossad initiated coupe attempts. how does trump justify the slaughter of many loyal iranians for the sake of paid revolutionaries with anything other than his fathers fortune being made through jewish corruption.
jews have corrupted ussa, beyond shadow of a doubt. everybody in history understands why these cockroaches have been kicked out of 100s countries. but amerikunts are a special species of dumb. they are still in denial about it. jews are destroying ussa. the ugliness you see in the ussa is ugliness in the jewish soul projected outward
has a rats has a spew too much arsenic in the old lace.
they still didn’t figure that one out. for zios they’re just consumer goods and expandable, much like all western countries, and after all entire world.
they have corrupted russia also, which miss the root causes by a ocean. they are all pseudologia fantastica. telling things that are lies. thats why the real 9/11, and the mass murder in the hospitals are so tabu in russia, and thats why they sacrifice slavs, for to make satan religious. when did you see a walking cadaver recently ? they are all liars.
exactly as the instigators have morph into “peace meddler” in ukraine, the nazi have morph into “peace meddler” in palestine. its pure insanity, and its because iran and russia have not kill the cadavers of fake jews ruling them; fake ethnicitys, fake human form, mass murdering in the hospitals. “un” are a genocide organization, not compatible with a multipolar world.
ramses i feel so fattened by your imitations
well, stop swallowing so much jizz. you’ve had plenty of good advice from posters to date so take the hint.
value based foreign policy by the rules based order sends american ships and troops into harms way again. international law and human rights be dammed. until next time they repeat.
go away. honestly you’re really very tedious imo.
the *** keeps repeating the mantra in the mirror that “this time will be different”… as it sends it’s north american and british lackeys to their inevitable end. indeed. this time will be different from the 12 day war of june 2025 but certainly not in i$rael and it’s western patron($) favor!… note to iran: make dimona a well deserved flat top parking lot with everything on it and surrounding it!!!
hahahaha as if we don’t know that you pretend not to know charles tles is king of israel. we do know you pretend. we do know you pretend to not know of his 100 year deal with ukraine that’s common knowledge just as is his being israels king. and we do know you pretend not to know putin is against anti semitism
and we know why you pretend all of that too .
trumpstein is such an empty soulless moron, this is the work f jewish interests. they only hire the most empty
hang those mossad agents high off the gallows. a good zionist is a dead one
with the last encounter they were strapped to the rockets the iranians sent over.
express delivery. far too good for the inbred rats. no invoices from tehran for the service though. 💩💩💩=🇮🇱
iran will clean amerika’s clock if it dares to attack —- and those aircraft carriers will be the very first targets of all those donated chinese hypersonic anti-ship missiles.
how did the last armada (the spanish one) work out?
for either side, i believe this is a numbers game (how long, how much, etc).
i believe the next war isn’t a scenario where iran stands alone (as at times before) and not to mention they would have learned how to fight a technologically advance opponent (especially after the 12 day war)
toilet gaming
if you want a multipolar world, you must of course take out the mass murdering entitys, with fake ethnicitys, and that not even acknowledge the existence of native people, even less their rights. wipe “us” and “israel” off the surface. a unique opportunity to prove you are not all ruled by a insane technocrat, that have foul all “politicans”, einstein, the cannibalistic clown 🤡
what a show. if gulf arabs, as they usually do, complain, but cave to trump, they will get what they have coming. there is no telling who will join, who will jump ship. all the syrian hoopla is stage setting. everyone talks about csg’s, but no one mentions their subs that shot cruise missiles at iran before. they will be the first to strike. they can get very close, a lot closer than a carrier and anything that close is hard to stop regardless what it is. i doubt this is ‘weeks’ away.
all the build-up before was mostly for show, for intimidation. this time will not be. this will be as stealthy as they can. csg will go dark, assets will still be massing when the attack begins, they will not wait until all assets are on site. cruise missiles will come first to draw fire and locate a.d. launchers. no one knows or says how many subs are there. israeli long range air launch missiles next, then massive air attacks.
it was obvious long, long time before the trick movies in 9/11, that the nazis mothership must be brought to a end. now you have let them mass murder in the hospitals. they will end anything remembering of a true civilization, if not stopped.