U.S. Navy Increases Presence in the Persian Gulf Ahead of Iran Talks
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USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) of the United States Navy. Photo: wiki commons.
Reuters/AP – The U.S. Navy has deployed a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf amid rising tensions with Iran over its nuclear program, Cmdr. Amy Derrick-Frost of the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet said Monday.
Derrick-Frost said that the deployment of the nuclear-powered USS Enterprise along the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group marks only the fourth time in the past decade that the Navy has had two aircraft carriers operating at the same time in the region.
