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The United States is weighing sending up to 10,000 other troops to West Asia, U.S. media reported connected Friday (March 27, 2026), arsenic speculation grows that Washington whitethorn beryllium preparing a crushed cognition successful Iran.
The deployment would people a important boost to Washington's subject beingness successful the region, contempt U.S. President Donald Trump insisting that Tehran was taking portion successful bid talks with Washington to extremity the war.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the determination would purpose to supply Mr. Trump with "more subject options" successful West Asia, engulfed by warfare since U.S.-Israeli strikes connected Iran connected February 28.
The troops would articulation thousands of paratroopers and Marines who person already been ordered to the region.
An Iranian authoritative said connected Wednesday (March 26, 2026) that Tehran would retaliate to a crushed penetration of its territory by Washington by activating its Houthi rebels successful Yemen to onslaught shipping successful the Red Sea.
That would unfastened up a caller beforehand successful a warfare of spiralling economic, governmental and subject repercussions.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly said helium does not program to nonstop crushed troops into combat with Iran.
"It is unclear wherever precisely forces volition spell successful the Middle East, but they volition apt beryllium wrong striking region of Iran and Kharg Island, a important lipid export hub disconnected Iran's coast," the Journal said.
The Pentagon did not instantly respond to AFP's petition for comment.
Mr. Trump has pushed backmost his deadline for strikes connected Iran's vigor assets, assuring that talks connected ending the warfare were "going precise well."
Israel's military, meanwhile, said aboriginal Friday (March 27, 2026) that it carried retired "a wide-scale question of strikes targeting infrastructure of the Iranian panic authorities successful the bosom of Tehran".
