Washington strengthens its forces in the Middle East to protect navigation

The Pentagon said Monday that United State It will send additional F-35 and F-16 fighters, as well as a warship, to the Middle East, in an effort to police key waterways in the region after commercial cargo ships have been detained or harassed by Iran in the past few months.

“The Pentagon is enhancing our presence and our ability to monitor (the Strait of Hormuz) and the surrounding waters,” Sabrina Singh, a spokeswoman for the US Department of Defense, told reporters.

A US military official had revealed a few days ago that the United States would send F-16 planes to the Gulf region at the end of this week, to provide air cover for ships in the Strait of Hormuz and prevent them from being seized by Iran.

Reinforcement of the A-10 aircraft

The US official indicated that there is increasing coordination between Iran, Syria and Russia to force the US forces to abandon their points of concentration in northern Syria.

This follows America’s decision to send F-16 fighter jets to the Gulf over the weekend to reinforce the A-10 armed jets that have been patrolling there for more than a week.