{"id":200497,"date":"2020-01-08T07:49:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T07:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=200497"},"modified":"2020-01-17T08:29:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T08:29:31","slug":"pentagon-sends-six-b-52-strategic-bombers-to-military-base-on-diego-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=200497","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon sends six B-52 strategic bombers to military base on Diego Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ariel Zilber \u2013 Daily Mail.com Jan 7, 2020<\/h1>\n
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B-52. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The Defense Department is sending six B-52 bombers to the Diego Garcia military base in the northern Indian Ocean as preparations for possible military action against Iran<\/span><\/strong><\/a> move forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pentagon officials told CNN<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0on Monday that the B-52 will be available for operations against the Islamic Republic if ordered into action, though the deployment does not signal a decision has been made about any attack plans.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The United States maintains several military bases in a number of Middle Eastern countries in close proximity to Iran, but it chose to deploy its bombers to Diego Garcia because it is out of reach of Iran\u2019s longest range missiles, according to the Pentagon.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the second time in the last year that the American military has deployed B-52 bomber aircraft to the region due to rising tensions with Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

In May, the White House ordered six B-52s to deploy to an American military base in Qatar as well as other bases in \u2018southwest Asia\u2019 after it received reports of alleged threats from Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is beyond the range of Tehran’s ballistic missiles so the bombers can safely wait for the orders to bomb Iran, if it comes<\/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":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200497","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=200497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200501,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200497\/revisions\/200501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}