Pentagon Sends Marine Expeditionary Unit To Middle East
Oil Spikes On Ground War Fears
BY TYLER DURDEN
Summary:
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Iran reportedly approves Indian government sending two liquefied petroleum tankers through Hormuz
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Japan-based USS Tripoli and its attached Marines headed toward Middle East
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WSJ says Pentagon sends Marine expeditionary unit to Middle East. Oil jumps higher
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Pentagon has just confirms two additional deaths in Thursday’s downing of a KC-135 refueling tanker aircraft over Western Iraq: all six US crewmembers are deceased.
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Trump and the Pentagon claim the US and Israel are “totally destroying” Iran as the war enters day 14, with Trump warning Tehran to “watch what happens” and “I am killing them” and “what a great honor it is to”
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Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is reportedly alive but wounded, “damaged,” and “disfigured”
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France and Italy open talks with Iran in hope of securing safe Hormuz Strait passage, FT reporting
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Hegseth briefing: US and Israel have hit more than 15,000 enemy targets since conflict began
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Several senior Iranian officials have been openly marching through the streets of Tehran today even amid smoke from US-Israeli bombing lingers in background.
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CENTCOM: four of six crew members aboard a US refueling aircraft that crashed in Iraq have died. Active search and rescue operation underway
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Strategic risks remain high as Iran reportedly begins laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, though oil eased slightly after India said one tanker successfully exited the strait.
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Are we really doing this (again)? The WSJ is reporting a breaking bombshell which suggests US ground forces could be introduced, or else this could also be about securing other areas of the Gulf region:
The Pentagon is moving a Marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East, as Iran steps up its attacks on the Strait of Hormuz, according to two U.S. officials. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved a request from U.S. Central Command, responsible for American forces in the Middle East, for the expeditionary unit, typically consisting of up to 2,500 Marines, the officials said.
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