New US Navy carrier strike group appeared in the Arabian Sea
The second American AUG (carrier strike group) has already begun to patrol the waters of the Arabian Sea.
Earlier this region left the aircraft carrier John C. Stennis, along with a group of other ships. The Americans decided to replace one group of warships with two at once. Over the past year and a half, the US Navy aircraft carrier groups have been in close proximity to the Iranian maritime border twice, and according to some data, more times.
Upon learning that the United States was withdrawing the aircraft carrier John C. Stennis from the Arabian Sea, the Iranian authorities demanded that the White House not send other aircraft carriers to this region. However, Mr. Panetta (head of the Pentagon) said that the United States does not intend to abandon the practice of holding two aircraft carriers in these waters at once. One of the ships should, according to Panetta, patrol the Persian Gulf directly, and the other should north of the Arabian Sea.
Recall that at the end of last year, Tehran expressed threats about the possible overlap of the Strait of Hormuz in the event that the Americans achieve the introduction of sanctions on the export of oil from Iran. The Strait of Hormuz itself is a real bottleneck through which tankers transport oil throughout the world. Washington, in turn, said it was not going to allow Iran to close the strait.
The ban on imports of Iranian oil will be discussed on January 23 at the level of EU foreign ministers. We are already talking about new sanctions against Tehran, since the authorities of the Islamic Republic, in the opinion of the European Union and the United States, do not want to cooperate with the world community on the development of a nuclear program.
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