Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is quietly extending troop deployments in a sign that the conflict could drag well into next year, according to people familiar with the matter.
\nIt is part of an open-ended military strategy designed to give President Trump options in the war, the people said. But the deployment of 19 warships, air-defense units, fighter squadrons and paratroopers across the region is straining servicemembers and their families and creating a maintenance backlog that could take years to unwind, the people said.<\/p>\n
Trump has embraced an economic pressure campaign in recent weeks in the hopes of forcing Iran to the negotiating table. As Trump waits to see if his strategy will work, the U.S. military is maintaining a presence of 50,000 troops in the region in part to give the president flexibility on next steps.<\/p>\n
The New York Post (NYP) writes, that Oman has quietly rejected Iran’s request to jointly charge service fees on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, The Post has learned — averting a clash with President Trump.<\/p>\n
A high-ranking regional official said that Muscat declined to consent to charging fees — even on a voluntary basis — for environmental and security services, contrary to a statement last week from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.<\/p>\n
During a press conference at the White House, US Vice President J.D. Vance, in turn, announced that the US may resort to covert subversive actions to put pressure on Iran.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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