{"id":23985,"date":"2026-10-02T16:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23985"},"modified":"2026-10-02T16:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:02:48","slug":"us-sends-third-carrier-strike-group-and-additional-troops-towards-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23985","title":{"rendered":"US Sends Third Carrier Strike Group and Additional Troops Towards Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The United States is deploying a third aircraft carrier group to the Middle East to strengthen its military presence near Iran, according to a US official. Additional military personnel are also being sent to the region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to an Arab television channel, the official said the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group departed San Diego for the region on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The official added that the Makin Island Marine Expeditionary Unit, comprising more than 2,000 Marines, had also been dispatched.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official, three aircraft carrier groups and two amphibious landing groups will be positioned around Iran by the end of November.<\/p>\n<p>The report said thousands of additional personnel and F-35 fighter jets were being deployed alongside approximately 50,000 US troops already stationed in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The official said the deployment was intended to preserve military options for President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said American forces were ready to carry out a new operation if ordered by the president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is deploying a third aircraft carrier group to the Middle East to strengthen its military presence near Iran, according to a US official. Additional military personnel are also being sent to the region. Speaking to an Arab television channel, the official said the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group departed San Diego [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,37],"tags":[2116,149,2856,2493,12203,13771],"class_list":["post-23985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-world","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-united-states","tag-us-military","tag-uss-theodore-roosevelt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23987,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23985\/revisions\/23987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}