Location at an overview: Iran allegedly pulls the military off Yemen

In view of the tightened tensions between the USA and Iran, Tehran, according to a media report, is taking military personnel from Yemen. Because of the increased US air strikes on the Huthi-Miliz allied with Tehran, Iran instructed its own military personnel to leave Yemen, the British “Telegraph” quoted a rank-high Iranian official. The steps aim to avoid direct confrontation with the United States.

The Islamic Republic is driving support for its “deputies” in the region in order to concentrate on the direct threats by the government of US President Donald Trump, the official was further cited. Trump had threatened Iran with the fact that every shot that was fired by the Huthi would in future be regarded as an attack by Iran. With the Lebanese Hisbollah and the Palestinian Hamas, the militia belongs to the Islamist “resistance front” of Iran against the arch enemy Israel.

USA increase pressure on Tehran

Trump also threatened Iran with massive bombing if Tehran did not agree to a new agreement to limit his nuclear program. Tehran rejected direct negotiations with the US government. The US news page “Axios” recently reported, but the White House thinks about Iran’s proposal for indirect discussions in Oman. According to a report by the Arab broadcaster Sky News Arabia cited in Israel, both sides have now supposedly agreed on it. According to Iranian sources, the talks should begin in Oman over the next three weeks.

At the same time, the Pentagon is rapidly expanding its forces in the region, according to the US media. Trump does not want to war with Iran, but need the military means to be ready to act, negotiations should fail and escalate things quickly, “Axios” quoted a US official. According to the US media, the Pentagon sent several B-2 tapping bombers to the Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean.

Pentagon increases armed forces in Middle East

In addition, the US armed forces move another aircraft carrier to the region. The “USS Carl Vinson” stationed in Asia is expected to arrive in the Middle East in two weeks, where the aircraft carrier “Uss Harry S. Truman” has been located since autumn, as the “Wall Street Journal” reported. In addition, destroyers and other warships that are equipped with marching aircraft, which serve attacks against the Huthi in Yemen and to deter Iran. It was not a preparation for an upcoming attack on Iran, the newspaper quoted two US officials.

The US government and other western states, including Israel, want to prevent the Islamic Republic dominated by Shiite spiritual nuclear weapons. France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot fears a military confrontation if a new nuclear deal with Tehran does not occur. There were only a few months before the agreement concluded in 2015 expired in which Iran committed itself to severely restricting its nuclear program, said Barrot this week.

Will Netanyahu come to Washington next week?

Meanwhile, Trump indicated that Israel’s head of government Benjamin Netanyahu might come to Washington next week. “I think he will come to our country at some point in the not too distant future, maybe next week, and we’ll talk about Israel. We will talk about what is going on,” said the US President to journalists. Israel’s army currently brings other areas in the contested Gaza Strip and thus increases the pressure on Hamas in order to achieve hostages that are released by the terrorist organization.

Israel also wants to “prepare the voluntary departure of residents of the Gaza Strip to third countries in a safe and controlled way”, according to Israeli media, as it was recently said in a declaration by Defense Minister Israel Katz. Palestinians willing to leave the country are therefore to be abandoned to leave the sealed coastal strip “in compliance with Israeli and international law and in accordance with the vision of US President Donald Trump”. It was not mentioned which third countries should be.

Meanwhile, Hamas called for worldwide protests against Israel’s military action in Gaza for today. The Palestinian Islamist organization spoke in a message of a “day of anger” and mobilization, “to support our people in the Gaza Strip”.