Thousands of US sailors, Marines reach Red Sea after Iran tensions

[Eugene]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Thousands of US sailors, Marines reach Red Sea after Iran tensions

Hashem Osseiran
Mon, August 7, 2023 at 7:16 AM EDT·3 min read

More than 3,000 United States military personnel have arrived in the Red Sea aboard two warships, part of a beefed up response from Washington after tanker seizures by Iran, the US Navy said Monday.

The deployment adds to a growing US military buildup in tense Gulf waterways vital to the global oil trade and led Tehran on Monday to accuse the US of inflaming regional instability.

The US military says Iran has either seized or attempted to take control of nearly 20 internationally flagged ships in the region over the past two years.

The US sailors and Marines entered the Red Sea on Sunday after transiting through the Suez Canal in a pre-announced deployment, the US Navy's Fifth Fleet said in a statement.

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[Tetrachloride]

1. Geography review

The Red Sea is long. Let’s round to 1000 miles

on the southwest side of Saudi Arabia

Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea, Sudan and more are on the Red Sea

However Iran is north of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries

Maps and Wiki are fun

Almost certainly those Marines passed within 100 miles of me today

[Eugene]

2. That hasn't stopped the U.S. and Iran from each other's ships and drones there.