An F/A-18E Super Hornet launches Friday from the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is en route to the Persian Gulf region. Those threats, administration and defense officials said, led to the announcement by the White House late Sunday that a U.S. aircraft carrier and Air Force bombers were being deployed to the Persian Gulf region. Tehran, for example, has sharply curtailed its naval forces’ harassment of American ships in the Persian Gulf, he said. The White House and the State and Defense departments declined to specify the nature of the new threats from Iran. The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and its associated escort ships are in the Mediterranean and have been en route to the Persian Gulf region since early April.

Source: Washington Post May 06, 2019 23:18 UTC