{"id":5821,"date":"2026-10-02T00:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=5821"},"modified":"2026-10-02T00:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:13:12","slug":"theyll-be-hit-very-hard-trump-sends-9000-troops-to-the-middle-east-after-warning-iran-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=5821","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They\u2019ll be hit very hard&#8217;: Trump sends 9,000 troops to the Middle East after warning Iran strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AP26274608484507-e1790887918529.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military is dispatching roughly 9,000 troops aboard a group of ships to the Middle East, a U.S. official said Thursday. The bolstering of the American military presence comes as President Donald Trump warned anew that new strikes against Iran could be on the horizon.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The troop movement, which includes a third aircraft carrier, underscores the rapidly evolving dynamic of Trump\u2019s war against Iran as he ponders his next move, with midterm elections in the United States looming large and new signs that the nature of the conflict may be becoming more complex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has threatened that a post-midterm election escalation \u2014 despite his initial promises to Americans of a campaign that would last a matter of weeks \u2014 remains a viable option. Further complicating matters, Trump told reporters Thursday that early indications suggest that Iran is linked to the FlyDubai co-pilot who stabbed his captain and tried to crash an Israel-bound flight on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an exchange with reporters at the White House, Trump raised the connection when asked by a reporter if there were any links between the pilot behind the attack and Tehran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI would say the answer, based on what I\u2019m hearing, is \u2018yes,\u2019 but we\u2019re working on it right now,\u201d Trump said, without offering details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump added that if the link to Iran is established, the United States would retaliate. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed in a Fox News interview earlier Thursday that investigators believe the FlyDubai suspect underwent \u201cIslamist, radical indoctrination\u201d but did not provide further details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOh, they\u2019ll be hit very hard, don\u2019t worry,\u201d Trump said. \u201cYou just ask them. They know what happened. They\u2019ll be hit very hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thousands of US sailors and Marines head to the Middle East<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the group of ships now en route to the Middle East together carry over 7,000 sailors and 2,000 Marines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It includes the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group, which recently deployed with the cruiser USS Chosin, and the USS Makin Island amphibious readiness group, which includes the USS John P. Murtha and USS Anchorage amphibious landing ships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It could mean that three carriers are in the region as early as the end of October, according to the U.S. official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given the personnel already in place in the Middle East, the move would bring the U.S. naval presence to an unusually high number of more than 20,000 sailors and Marines as well as hundreds of aircraft. The Navy previously had three carrier strike groups in the Middle East in April for the first time since 2003.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The carriers USS George H.W. Bush and the USS George Washington are in the region now, along with the USS Boxer amphibious readiness group. The Washington is typically deployed to the Pacific Ocean, but it was moved to the Middle East to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln, whose arduous deployment resulted in the crew being at sea for more than 260 days straight.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trump explains why he rejected Iran\u2019s latest truce proposal<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump, in a Time magazine interview published Thursday, also raised the prospects of new strikes, saying it is \u201cpossible\u201d that he will ramp up bombing in Iran after the Nov. 3 elections in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When pressed, Trump said he could not go into further detail about his strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI can\u2019t tell you that because look, you know, you\u2019re asking, where are you going to bomb?\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said in the interview, conducted Monday, that he rejected the latest ceasefire proposal from Iran because \u201cthings that I wouldn\u2019t have approved a year ago I wouldn\u2019t have today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump cited as an example an offer from Iran to \u201copen up\u201d the Strait of Hormuz, the key energy shipping corridor, but said the overall proposal was \u201cnot good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The war shows signs of getting more complicated<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked if the increasingly unpopular war would threaten Republican Party chances in November, Trump at first responded, \u201cIt\u2019s possible.\u201d But then he added, \u201cIt should help, because Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president said \u201c100% of the people\u201d oppose Iran having nuclear attack capabilities \u201cincluding worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo, when you say it that way, it would help,\u201d Trump added. \u201cIf you don\u2019t say that, it could hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, there\u2019s also growing concern that Tehran might be turning to asymmetrical tactics following the FlyDubai attack and another suspicious incident in the U.K.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities believe that Iran might be looking to shift strategy just as the U.S. finds greater success in loosening Iran\u2019s grip over the Strait of Hormuz and getting Gulf allies\u2019 oil to market, while a Navy blockade is shutting down Iran\u2019s own oil exports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">British authorities announced on Thursday the arrest of a dual U.K.-Iranian national on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England that British authorities have linked to Tehran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The arrest of the 27-year-old man in Central London came after U.K. authorities arrested five men, all British nationals in their 20s and from London, in the early hours of Sunday on suspicion of explosives and terror offenses close to the RAF Fairford air base<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The base has been used by American bombers to strike Iran. The suspects have since been released on bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Madhani reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writers Seung Min Kim and Will Weissert in Washington contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Theyll #hit #hard #Trump #sends #troops #Middle #East #warning #Iran #strikes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military is dispatchi&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[273,260,105,262,456,5716,452,3010,2050,2462,1474,357,356,3114],"class_list":["post-5821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-east","tag-hard","tag-hit","tag-iran","tag-middle","tag-military","tag-sends","tag-strikes","tag-theyll","tag-troops","tag-trump","tag-war","tag-warning"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;They\u2019ll be hit very hard&#039;: Trump sends 9,000 troops to the Middle East after warning Iran strikes - 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