Washington, April 3 (IANS) Latest US intelligence assessments show that roughly half of Iran’s missile launchers are still intact and thousands of one-way attack drones remain in Iran’s arsenal more than one month after the United States and Israel launched massive strikes on Iran, CNN reported.”They are still very much poised to wreak absolute havoc throughout the entire region,” a source familiar with the intelligence told the US media outlet.According to the report, the assessments also indic…
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Washington, March 31 (IANS) US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday said that Washington has already taken steps to “set the conditions” to keep the Strait of Hormuz operational, even as military operations against Iran continue. “There are many more vessels flowing through today than there were,” Hegseth said told reporters at a Pentagon news conference here, adding that the US had made clear to Iran to “open it for business or… we have options.”He stressed that the Strait of…
Washington, March 10 (IANS) US President Donald Trump used a closed-door address to House Republicans in Florida to mix wartime rhetoric with election-year politics, praising US military action against Iran and pressing lawmakers to rally behind what he called the “Save America Act”.Speaking at the Republican Members’ Issues Conference at Doral, on Monday Trump said House Republicans were part of “one of the most consequential Republican majorities in history” and argued that their legis…
Washington, March 4 (IANS) Oil and natural gas prices climbed sharply as the war involving Iran raised fears about disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping corridor for global energy, prompting US President Donald Trump to move to reassure markets and protect tanker traffic.Energy markets surged as investors grappled with the widening Middle East conflict and mounting threats to the narrow waterway through which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil and gas flows.According to a report …
Washington, Jan 28 (IANS) President Donald Trump said a large US naval force is moving toward the Middle East amid tensions with Iran, adding that Washington hopes military force will not be needed but is prepared if diplomacy fails.In a radio interview with WABC host Sid Rosenberg, Trump said the deployment was aimed at deterring further escalation and reinforcing US pressure on Tehran. “We have a big armada going over there right now,” Trump said. He described the force as “very powerful…
Washington, Dec 23 (IANS) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the American naval dominance is a central pillar of global peace and stability, and argued that the US Navy’s strength underpins freedom of navigation, deters conflict, and sustains the international order.At a Mar-a-Lago news conference alongside President Donald Trump, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Navy Secretary John Phelan, Rubio said the administration’s renewed focus on shipbuilding and maritime power was not simply a m…