The US aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman crossed the Strait of Gibraltar last night (Monday) and entered the Mediterranean region, at the same time the Theodore Roosevelt has also arrived.
This comes after the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln recently entered the US Navy's 7th Flotilla, leaving the Middle East without an aircraft carrier for a short period of time for the second time in the past year.
In September, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered the return from the Middle East of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, which was sent to the region after the assassination of the head of Hamas' political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, and senior Hezbollah official Fuad Shokhar, according to a report on ABC.
U.S. military commanders in the Middle East claim that the presence of a U.S. aircraft carrier and its warships is an effective deterrent in the region, especially for Iran. According to various reports, since the outbreak of the war on October 7, there has been a continuous presence of warships in the area.
* Channel 14 contributed to this article.