WEB DESK
The United States has taken a decision to deploy an aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force to West Asia. In a statement, National Security Advisor John Bolton said, the decision has been taken in response to a number of escalatory indications and warnings from Iran.
The deployment comes after US President Donald Trump last month refused to give waivers to countries like India from buying oil from Iran, in an attempt to reduce Iran’s oil exports.
The Trump administration insists that it is not seeking to topple Iran’s regime, but that it only seeks to push the government to stop supporting proxy militias and terrorist groups and otherwise change its behaviour.