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Deployment to @CENTCOM details from Pentagon:
(1/5)
Approx 1500:
-Fighter squadron “in order to defend or respond if we have to”
-Extend Patriot missile deployment
-Increased intelligence surveillance, reconnaissance. “Allow us to see the threat better"
-Engineers to reinforce
(2/5)
Where will they go?
-NOT/NOT Iraq or Syria.
-Pentagon officials wouldn't detail where, but this means troops likely to deploy to a combination of Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and/or Oman.
(3/5)
Message to Iran/goal of US strategy?
-Pentagon officials said over and over again a version of, “We do not seek conflict with Iran. We see these as defensive in nature.”
-Reiterated that goal of the US is to return Iran to the negotiating table, @SecPompeo list of demands.
(4/5)
Proof intelligence is legitimate?
-Described intelligence as “high confidence.”
-Described “campaign” by Iran to destabilize region in recent weeks.
-But despite repeated questions, didn't provide any proof, or answer how this is different than previous Iran campaigns.
(5a/5) But officials went further to accuse Iran of recent attacks:
-Said Houthi drone attacks, tanker attacks, rocket attack near US/other Baghdad embassies “stems back to the leadership of Iran at the highest levels.” (MORE)
(5b/5)
-Accused IRGC of launching tanker attacks w/ limpet mines
-Described for the first time on the record that IRGC deployed modified small boats “capable of launching cruise missiles”
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