(RT) – The US is deploying a carrier strike group and bomber command force to the Middle East to send a “message” to Tehran, that any attack on US interests will be met by “unrelenting force,” national security adviser John Bolton said. “The United States is not seeking war with the Iranian regime, but we are fully prepared to respond to any attack, whether by proxy, [by] the Islamic Revolutionary Guard

Corps or regular Iranian forces,” Bolton said in a statement. Washington has this week piled on sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program and formally designated the IRGC as a terrorist organization in April. Washington announced sanctions against Iran’s nuclear power plant at Bushehr and a ban on exports of heavy water and any further uranium enrichment on Friday. READ MORE


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