{"id":188133,"date":"2019-05-10T11:33:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T11:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188133"},"modified":"2019-05-13T06:37:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T06:37:19","slug":"us-b-52-bombers-land-in-qatar-over-unspecified-iran-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188133","title":{"rendered":"US B-52 bombers land in Qatar over unspecified Iran threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Associated Press \u2013 May 10, 2019<\/h1>\n

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B-52 bombers ordered by the White House to deploy to the Persian Gulf to counter unspecified threats from Iran have arrived at a major American air base in Qatar, the U.S. Air Force acknowledged Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Images released by the U.S. Air Force\u2019s Central Command show B-52H Stratofortress bombers arriving at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar on Thursday night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Others landed at an undisclosed location Wednesday in \u201csouthwest Asia,\u201d the Air Force said. The U.S. military in the past has described its presence at both the Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates and Al Udeid as \u201csouthwest Asia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Air Force identified the aircraft as coming from the 20th Bomb Squadron of Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Sunday, the White House announced it would send the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group and the bombers into the Persian Gulf to counter Tehran. The Lincoln on Thursday passed through the Suez Canal on its way to the Persian Gulf.<\/span><\/p>\n

The administration of President Donald Trump has not offered specific details of the threat allegedly presented by Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Iran announced it would begin backing away from its nuclear deal with world powers, a year after Trump pulled America from the accord. President Hassan Rouhani gave European leaders a 60-day deadline to find a way to shield Iran from U.S. sanctions targeting its economy and oil industry, otherwise, he said Tehran would begin to enrich uranium at levels closer to weapons-grade levels.<\/span><\/p>\n

The European Union on Thursday urged Iran to respect the international agreement curbing the Islamic Republic\u2019s nuclear ambitions, and added that the bloc aims to continue trading with the country despite U.S. sanctions. But so far, the EU and its member nations have not offered any new plans.<\/span><\/p>\n

For his part, Trump said he wanted to speak to Iran\u2019s leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I would like to see with Iran, I would like to see them call me,\u201d Trump told reporters Thursday at the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was no immediate reaction from Iran, which in the past has said it turned down Trump\u2019s requests for meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n

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At best this is being done to intimidate Iran, in which case we don\u2019t think it will succeed. At worst though, this may be part of a preliminary build-up for an attack on Iran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188137,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188133\/revisions\/188137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}