US Sends More Warships, Patriot Missiles to Mideast Amid Escalation With Iran

• US Sends More Warships, Patriot Missiles to Mideast Amid Escalation With Iran
  by https://sputniknews.com/
  Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has ordered the deployment of more MIM-104 Patriot missile defense systems to the Middle East due to increasing tensions between the US and Iran.
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  A Pentagon statement on Friday said Shanahan had send the USS Arlington, a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, along with a battery of Patriot missiles and auxiliary equipment to US Central Command (CENTCOM), the command division covering US forces in southwest Asia and northeastern Africa. The Arlington is currently in Europe.
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  “The Department of Defense continues to closely monitor the activities of the Iranian regime, their military and proxies,” a Pentagon statement said.
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  The move follows sales worth $6 billion of the mobile surface-to-air missile system to both the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain earlier this week. Both countries are small US allies in the Persian Gulf and house major US military bases just a couple of dozen miles from Iranian territory.
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