The US is sending an aircraft carrier group to the Middle East ahead of schedule and warning that Iran and it's proxy forces are showing "troubling and escalatory" indications of a possible attack on American forces in the region. For years, the US maintained a carrier presence in the Persian Gulf and Middle East region. Last year the administration decided to end the continuous carrier presence, and only send a strike group intermittently into the region. The US also recently designated Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group, the first ever for an entire division of another government. Bolton and Pompeo have in recent months spoken stridently about Iran and its "malign activities" in the region.

Source: The Telegraph May 06, 2019 18:56 UTC