US ‘to park carrier off Iran’

THE US is planning to position an aircraft carrier battle group in the Persian Gulf within months as a warning to Iran, according to reports.

CBS News said the Pentagon was deploying “a major buildup of naval forces in and around the Persian Gulf” in response to what the US considers “increasingly provocative acts”.

The network noted Iranian naval exercises, support of Shiite militias in Iraq and its enrichment of nuclear fuel as reasons for US concern.

The network stressed, however, that the US does not intend to attack Iran but rather, “discourage its leaders from spreading their Shiite revolution.”

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