US deploys submarine to region as Iran stresses right to ‘appropriate and deterrent response’ to assassinationsIran has insisted on its right to an “appropriate and deterrent response” against Israel as the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, told his US counterpart that Tehran was making preparations for a large-scale military attack.It comes as the US announced it had ordered the deployment of the USS Georgia, a nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine, to the Middle East, amid mounting concern over the determination by Iran and its proxies to retaliate for Israel’s assassination of Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran. Continue reading…
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Author : Peter Beaumont
Publish date : 2024-08-12 20:00:16
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Israel prepares for likely retaliatory attack by Iran as tensions mount
