iran Update - Dec 4

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Iran has a military advantage over the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East and fresh intel has emerged over the past month that Tehran is moving troops and weapons into potential positions that are of concern to the United States, reports CNN.

"There has been consistent intelligence in the last several weeks," one administration official told CNN.

A study published in early November said Iran's "third-party capability" had become Tehran's weapon of choice.

Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie, the head of the military's Central Command, nearly two weeks ago said the deployment of 14,000 additional American troops to the Persian Gulf region since the spring had not likely dissuaded Iran from planning a major attack.

"I would expect that if we look at the past three or four months, it's possible they will do something that is irresponsible. It's possible that they'll lash out at their neighbors," McKenzie told an audience in Bahrain at the time. "It is not going to be productive for them in the long term to choose to act out in the military domain. That's the message that we're trying to convey."

Relations between Iran and the U.S. reached a crisis point in 2018 after President Donald Trump abandoned a 2015 pact between Iran and world powers under which Tehran curbed its nuclear program in return for the lifting of sanctions.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4729 ... -us-forces

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The Iranian regime faces the most serious popular challenge to its tyranny in 40 years. Sparked by a 50 percent hike in fuel prices last month, the uprising has spread to the whole country. Security forces have killed hundreds of protesters, and at one point they were even forced to shut down the internet — a sign that the ayatollahs feared for the survival of their regime.

Read: https://nypost.com/2019/12/03/iran-in-f ... blindness/

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The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its Strike Force moved back from the north Arabian Sea into the Pesian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since June and took up position opposite Central Iran.< This is an extremely big deal!

I get a report from the Middle East that has been extremely accurate over the years. Our media doesn't over this stuff at all.

On November 23 forces backed by Iran launched a major offensive in Yemen using missiles and drones provided by Iran.
"Dubbed Operation “If You Go Back,” it sent 9 ballistic missiles and 20 drones speeding towards their targets. More than 350 soldiers were killed and wounded, many of them Saudi, Emirati and Sudanese nationals."