JTA – The Trump
administration is deploying air and sea strike forces to the Middle East
in response to what it described as troubling and escalatory
indications and warnings from Iran.
It s not clear what Iranian escalations National Security Adviser
John Bolton was referring to Sunday evening in a statement. Israel
blames a deadly escalation over the weekend on the Gaza Strip border in part on Iranian arming and funding of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the hostilities were not related to the military ramp-up in the Persian Gulf.
