WASHINGTON: Amid the rising tension with Iran, the United States’ Department of Defense is reportedly mulling over a US military request to send about 5,000 additional troops to the Middle East.
The US President has vowed to bring Iran’s oil export to Zero through wide-ranging sanction a year after US pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal.
According to reports, the request for deployment of more troops had been made by U.S. Central Command.
The Pentagon regularly receives – and declines – requests for additional resources from U.S. combatant commands throughout the world.
It is not clear whether Pentagon will approve the request.
This appeared to be the latest request for additional resources in the face of what U.S. officials have said are credible threats from Iran against U.S. forces and American interests in the Middle East.
The United States has not publicly shown any evidence of what the specific intelligence on the Iranian threat is.
“As a matter of longstanding policy, we are not going to discuss or speculate on potential future plans and requests for forces,” Commander Rebecca Rebarich, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said on Wednesday.
Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Tuesday that while threats from Iran in the Middle East remained high, deterrence measures taken by the Pentagon had “put on hold” the potential for attacks on Americans.
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