Sunday 22 January 2012

NEWS FLASH - 01.44 GMT 01.01.12 - US sending aircraft carriers to Hormuz in direct message to Iran

The US is committed to maintaining a global fleet of 11 aircraft carriers despite budget pressures to reduce the fleet's size. The reason is in part to project sea power against Iran in the Middle East, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told an audience of nearly two thousand sailors aboard the USS Enterprise. 

Panetta added that the ship is on due course for the Persian Gulf – and will steam through the Strait of Hormuz in a direct message to Iran. Earlier, Iran had warned the US that it might block the strait, which is a major transit route for global oil supplies, urging Washington not to send carriers into the Gulf.

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