{"id":5546,"date":"2026-10-03T12:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T17:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/03\/us-sends-more-warships-and-troops-toward-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T17:38:24","slug":"us-sends-more-warships-and-troops-toward-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/03\/us-sends-more-warships-and-troops-toward-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"US Sends More Warships and Troops Toward Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/1i5bq-OCVis\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"US Military Buildup Raises Iran Escalation Risk\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1i5bq-OCVis?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 October 3, 2026 (STL.News) The United States is sending thousands of additional sailors and Marines, another aircraft carrier strike group and an amphibious readiness group toward the Middle East, significantly increasing American military capabilities around Iran as the risk of another round of fighting remains high. The deployment includes the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group and the USS Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group, according to multiple reports citing U.S. officials. The incoming forces include more than 7,000 sailors and approximately 2,000 Marines. Their arrival could temporarily put three U.S. aircraft carriers in or around<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/us-sends-more-warships-and-troops-toward-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 October 3, 2026 (STL.News) The United States is sending thousands of additional sailors and Marines, another aircraft carrier strike group and an amphibious readiness group toward the Middle East, significantly increasing American military capabilities around Iran as&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5548,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions\/5548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}