Old news: Iran mocks Bolton for using carrier deployment as ‘psychological warfare’

Old news: Iran mocks Bolton for using carrier deployment as ‘psychological warfare’

Published time: 7 May, 2019 07:37

The deployment of the USS ‘Abraham Lincoln’ to the Middle East, which was trumpeted by John Bolton as an “unmistakable message to the Iranian regime,” is old news being peddled to pressure Tehran, a senior Iranian official said.

Bolton, the US national security adviser, described the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier and its strike group as an “unrelenting force” that will respond to any attack on US interests by Iran. Responding to the threat, Keyvan Khosravi, the spokesman for Iran’s National Security Council, dismissed Bolton’s statement as “an unskillful use of a worn-out event to wage psychological war against Iran.”

The Iranian official pointed out that the movement of the carrier strike group was known long before Bolton’s statement. US defense officials reported that the USS ‘Abraham Lincoln’ entered the Mediterranean Sea in early April, a week after leaving Norfolk, and was slated to circumnavigate the globe before reaching its homeport of San Diego.

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