{"id":82666,"date":"2024-08-12T13:14:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T09:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=82666"},"modified":"2024-08-12T14:15:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T10:15:03","slug":"us-sends-submarine-to-middle-east-amid-rising-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/82666\/","title":{"rendered":"US sends submarine to Middle East amid rising tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The US has sent a guided missile submarine to the Middle East, as tensions grow in the region, the BBC writes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The move comes in response to fears of a wider regional conflict, after the recent assassination of senior Hezbollah and Hamas leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said the U.S. would &ldquo;take every possible step&rdquo; to defend its ally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To remind, Iran blames Israel for the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and has vowed to punish. However, Israel has not made an official comment regarding the murder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Pentagon ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group, which is carrying F-35C fighter jets, to accelerate its journey to the region. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has sent a guided missile submarine to the Middle East, as tensions grow in the region, the BBC writes. The move comes in response to fears of a wider regional conflict, after the recent assassination of senior Hezbollah and Hamas leaders. U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said the U.S. would &ldquo;take every possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}