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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14582683/us-stealth-bomber-fleet-chagos-iran.html
The United States has sent an 'unprecedented' deployment
of its heavy B-2 bombers to the Chagos Islands in a show
of force amid rising tensions with Iran.
Six of the famed stealth bombers flew in to the U.S. airbase
on Diego Garcia from Missouri last week in the 'largest
single deployment in US history'.
Satellite images of the Indian Ocean airbase showed six of
the planes on the apron, adjacent to the runway, last Wednesday.
'To my knowledge, this is the largest B-2 deployment to a
forward location,' Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear
Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists
told American journalist Ken Klippenstein.
The Trump administration has been unusually quiet on the
deployment to Chagos, which is in range of both Iran and
Yemen, where B-2s have been used to target Houthi rebels.
While Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's envoy to the Middle East,
said last month that there was still hope Iran could be
reached through diplomatic routes, the U.S. president has
been more direct in threats against the regime.
. . .
This is starting to look serious. There have been
threats at Iran in the past but THIS is a huge
build-up of major firepower in its back yard.
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