Kirby’s claim about increasing US military presence in the region
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News, according to ABC, in the midst of the escalation of tension in the Middle East and the increase in terrorist operations by the Zionist regime after the assassination of Seyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hezbollah. Lebanon, John Kirby, the spokesman of the National Security Council of the White House, claimed that the “powerful” American military presence in the region will be maintained.
Kirbi referring to the dispatch of additional troops to the region since April this year and after Iran’s “Odea Sadegh” operation Against Tel Aviv, he claimed: Our military capability (in the region) to defend ourselves and help Israel to defend itself is very strong.
In a separate statement, the Pentagon claimed that a strike group had been ordered as well as a special naval unit. is to remain active in the eastern Mediterranean. Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder added that the United States will strengthen its air defense capabilities in the region in the coming days.
Following the assassination and martyrdom of Seyed Hassan Nasrallah in Friday’s airstrikes by the Zionist regime against southern Lebanon, tensions in the Middle East region has escalated. However, the spokesman of the National Security Council of the White House added that the United States currently has no plans to immediately evacuate its citizens from Lebanon.