Washington: A “massive armada” of US warships now in the Middle East is ready to strike Iran, President Donald Trump says, as he issued his most direct threat to date for the Islamic Republic to negotiate or face American military action.
A strike group led by the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier was redirected to the region from the Indo-Pacific this month and entered the Middle East at the start of this week. It was reportedly tracked to the coast of Oman on Tuesday, within 1000 kilometres of Iran.