US sends USS Tripoli and thousands of troops to Middle East

The US is sending USS Tripoli, along with its Marine expeditionary unit, which can conduct ground operations, to the Middle East.

This comes only one day after the IRGC announced that it had successfully struck USS Abraham Lincoln. Of course, the US denied this claim, but then immediately called up the USS Tripoli.

أهم ما جرى في الساعات الأخيرة!

أحداث حاسمة.

بالنسبة لحاملة الطائرات أبراهام لينكولن هناك إعلان رسمي من حرس الثورة بأنها أصيب وتغادر إلى الولايات المتحدة. سنتكوم نفت وقالت إنها لاتزال في العمليات، في الوقت نفسه استدعيت حاملتا الطائرات تريبولي وبوش إلى الحرب، وهذا يؤشر إلى صحة…

— Mohamad Seifeddine (@mseiif) March 13, 2026

According to Mohamad Seifeddine:

Regarding the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, there is an official announcement from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stating that it has been hit and is withdrawing to the United States. CENTCOM denied this and said it remains in operations. At the same time, the aircraft carriers Tripoli and Bush have been called into the fight, which points to the validity of Lincoln’s exit from the theater.

As for the Gerald R. Ford, the buzz is around a fire breaking out on it. The Americans said it was an electrical malfunction, while Iran said it was deliberately set by the carrier’s crew to avoid combat. This might mean it was also struck, with a “conspiracy of silence” from both sides to prevent the cost that could arise from two aircraft carriers being hit in a single day.

The incident with the two pilots is confirmed, and there’s chatter about it—the Iranians say it went down under fire, while the Americans say it was an accident and not from enemy fire or friendly fire. In the end, yes, there is a qualitative leap in the quality and level of the hits. And now a signal from the Houthis of imminent entry. This means we’ve entered the final level of means, or the last hundred meters of the war. Because Houthi involvement means maximum pressure on energy markets. And this assumes it would shatter the markets if it continues for long, in parallel with the closure of the Bab al-Mandab. The next five days are decisive!

This will add thousands of Marines, several warships, and F-35 fighter jets to the region.

The ships are sailing from Japan and will reach the region in around two weeks.

Strait of Hormuz

On March 2, Iran announced it was closing the Strait of Hormuz

Iran has been blocking the Strait of Hormuz in response to the US and Israel’s illegal and unprovoked attacks.

So far, the disruption has caused the US $11bn.

On Thursday, March 12, Scott Bessent, the Treasurer Secretary, said that US Navy escorts for commercial ships could start soon.

On March 4, a US submarine sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena off the coast of Sri Lanka. So far, at least 18 vessels have been hit in Gulf waters.

According to Axios, the United States military is planning:

potential operations for taking out land-based anti-ship missiles that the Iranians have deployed in the Strait area.

Pete Hegseth, Defense Secretary, said that:

But it’s not just that Iran doesn’t have a functioning Air Force, or that their entire Navy is at the bottom of the Persian Gulf, or their missile force is shrinking daily.
They also don’t have the ability to build more. That’s the most important component I’d like to emphasize today

But why are the US and Israel allowed to rebuild their armies when Iran shoots down their planes or sinks their ships?

And why do they not want brown Middle Eastern countries to be able to defend themselves?

USS Tripoli

The USS Tripoli is an amphibious assault ship — not an aircraft carrier. However, it functions almost like a small aircraft carrier.

This means that the United States will soon have four aircraft carriers, if we include the USS Tripoli, active in the West Asia.

The US has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in active service, but it can only deploy about half at any given time.

Aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford, an aircraft carrier currently operating in the Red Sea, a fire broke out, which was ‘unrelated to combat’. Two sailors were injured and received medical treatment.

The Ford has more than 5,000 sailors on board and carries more than 75 military aircraft.

US casualties

On Thursday, March 12, six crew members were killed when a US KC-135 refuelling aircraft crashed in Iraq.

The US claimed it was due to an incident with another aircraft, but the Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed responsibility for downing the aircraft.

Then, on March 13, Iranian missiles also damaged 5 US Air Force refuelling aircraft at Prince Sultan Airbase in Saudi Arabia.

So far, Iranian strikes have damaged seven US refuelling planes and killed six crew members.

Since the US and Israel launched their illegal attacks on Iran, a total of 13 US personnel have died in the Middle East.

What happened to being the president of peace? Trump spent four years promising the American people that there would be no new wars. Yet as soon as he’s back in office, the US is blowing up civilians in Iran.

But the US must already be struggling. It announced it was deploying 2,500 marines, then quickly changed the figure to 5,000. US colonialism is in full swing — and Trump does not care how many black and brown people he murders — as long as he’s distracting us from the Epstein files.

It’s amazing what lengths powerful men will go to, just to cover up the evidence of them raping children.

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