Iran defiant as US deploys third warship to Middle East

President Masoud ​​Pezeshkian declared connected Tuesday ​that Iran would not succumb arsenic the United States ramps up subject assets successful the Middle East.

At a gathering with Pakistan’s service chief, Syed Asim Munir Ahmed, Pezeshkian ​told ​Washington to assistance ​its pressure​, threats​, and sanctions earlier immoderate negotiations.

"They perpetually publicize successful the media that they privation to onslaught Iran to frighten our people," the person said. "Our federation has nary fearfulness of martyrdom."

​The Pentagon is deploying the USS Theodore Roosevelt bearer onslaught radical (CSG) and the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) to the Middle East.

The warship ​ and troops volition scope by the extremity of November,​ providing much options arsenic President ​Donald Trump ​weighs resuming strikes connected Iran aft the Midterms.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt comprises astir 6,000 sailors, portion the ​MEU and Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) typically see astir 4,500 marines and sailors.

Roosevelt volition beryllium the 3rd CSG successful the region, joining the USS George H.W. Bush, which arrived successful April, and the USS George Washington, which precocious replaced the USS Abraham Lincoln.

​Iran's Revolutionary Guards spokesperson Hossein Mohebi vowed they would respond much forcefully to further subject action, saying adversaries cannot execute "new gains" from the conflict.

​IRGC lawman commandant Mostafa Izadi​ said U.S. naval forces had moved astir 700 kilometers distant to debar Iranian missiles​, according to...