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US Has Resources To Stop Iran's Actions: Centcom Commander

  • A U.S. Marine MV-22 Osprey with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit lands before offloading Marines and Sailors as part of embassy reinforcement training during an exercise at Camp Beuhring, Kuwait

    A U.S. Marine MV-22 Osprey with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit lands before offloading Marines and Sailors as part of embassy reinforcement training during an exercise at Camp Beuhring, Kuwait | Photo: Reuters

Published 28 April 2019
Opinion

“I believe we’ll have the resources necessary to deter Iran from taking actions that will be dangerous."

The chief of the U.S.' Central Command, General Kenneth McKenzie, told Sky News Arabia on Saturday that the American forces would deploy their necessary resources to counter any dangerous action from Iran. 

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“We’re gonna continue to reach out to our partners and friends in the region to ensure that we make common cause against the threat of Iran,” McKenzie, on an official visit to the Gulf region, was quoted as saying by Sky News Arabia. “I believe we’ll have the resources necessary to deter Iran from taking actions that will be dangerous,."

“We will be able to respond effectively," McKenzie said in response to a question about what would happen if Iran decided to attack the U.S. Armed Forces in the Persian Gulf. 

McKenzie added that a reduction of U.S. troops in Syria would be done cautiously.

“On the long term, we’re gonna reduce our forces in Syria, we recognize that, that’s the guidance in which we are operating. That will be something that we will look at very carefully as we go forward,” the general said.

Tensions between Iran and the U.S. have significantly increased since the Trump administration withdrew from the nuclear deal that was established by former President Barak Obama.

Further adding to the tensions,  the United States blacklisted Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Washington on Monday demanded buyers of Iranian oil stop purchases by May or face sanctions, ending six months of waivers which allowed Iran’s eight biggest buyers, most of them in Asia, to continue importing limited volumes.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and some senior military commanders have threatened to disrupt oil shipments from Gulf countries if Washington tries to strangle Tehran oil exports.

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