The U.S. military is deploying a large amphibious assault ship with thousands of additional Marines and sailors to the Middle East, three U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday, as Iran's new supreme leader hailed Iran's "unity" and "resistance".
Reuters had reported that Washington, desperate to reopen the Gulf oil bottleneck of the Strait of Hormuz, shut by Iran since the U.S. and Israel attacked...
The deployment described represents a deliberate escalation of strategic positioning by the U.S., framed primarily through Trump’s characteristic reactive aggression – a classic ‘motte-and-bailey’ maneuver. The narrative consciously prioritizes the immediate crisis of energy disruption to justify a show of force, obscuring the deeper implications of continued U.S. involvement in a region riddled with proxy conflicts. The invocation of Khamenei's defiant rhetoric, carefully curated by his Telegr...