АНУ-ын цэргийн хүчин Ойрх Дорнод дахь байрлалууд руугаа Ираны талаас хийсэн халдлагын дараа бүс нутаг дахь цэргийн нөөц бололцоогоо нэмэгдүүлж байна.
Вашингтон болон Тегераны хооронд өрнөж буй сөргөлдөөн дээд цэгтээ хүрээд байгааг “Washington Post” сонин мэдээллээ. Пентагоны мэдээлснээр, сүүлийн долоо хоногт Ираны тал АНУ-ын цэргийн байгууламжууд руу пуужин болон дроноор хэд хэдэн удаа халдсаны улмаас дөрвөн цэргийн алба хаагч амиа алдаж, олон арван хүн шархдан, Black Hawk нисдэг тэрэгнүүд гэмтжээ. Үүнтэй холбогдуулан АНУ бүс нутаг дахь агаарын цэргийн хүчээ нэмэгдүүлж, Израйл руу цэнэглэгч онгоцууд илгээхээр болсон байна.
АНУ-ын албаны эх сурвалжийн мэдээлснээр, тус улсын цэргийн командлал өргөн хүрээтэй дайнд бэлтгэж байгаа хэдий ч агаарын довтолгооноос хамгаалах систем болон пуужингийн нөөц шавхагдаж байгаа нь томоохон сорилт болоод байна. Цэргийн шинжээчид АНУ Ираны нутаг дэвсгэрт хуурай замын ажиллагаа явуулахад бэлэн бус байгааг анхааруулж байгаа юм. Ерөнхийлөгч Дональд Трамп Ираны эрчим хүчний станцууд болон цөмийн байгууламжуудад цохилт өгөх зэрэг цэргийн шинэ хувилбаруудыг авч хэлэлцэж байна.
Ираны Гадаад хэргийн яамнаас мэдэгдэхдээ, бүс нутаг дахь хурцадмал байдлын хариуцлагыг АНУ бүрэн хүлээх ёстой гэв. Мөн бүс нутгийн бусад улс орнуудыг АНУ-д өөрийн нутаг дэвсгэр болон дэд бүтцээ ашиглуулахгүй байхыг уриалж, Тегераны хариу цохилтыг өөрийгөө хамгаалах эрхийн хүрээнд хийгдсэн ажиллагаа хэмээн тодорхойллоо.
Хормузын хоолой дахь нөхцөл байдал хурцадсанаар өмнө нь байгуулсан гал зогсоох хэлэлцээр нуран унасан юм. Дональд Трамп хэлэлцээрийг хүчингүй болсонд тооцож, далайн бүслэлт тогтоох заналхийлэл хийсэн бол Ираны тал үүнийг олон улсын гэрээг ноцтой зөрчсөн үйлдэл хэмээн үзэж, улс орныхоо бүрэн бүтэн байдлыг хамгаалахаа мэдэгдлээ.
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The White House is likely unaware it lacks the resources needed for an extended military campaign, an American official has told the paper
The US and Iran are on the precipice of all out conflict, the Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing sources familiar with discussions in the While House. According to the paper’s sources, Washington is ramping up its air war assets in the Middle East.
The warning comes as the Pentagon confirmed that at least four US service members had been killed after Iranian forces launched retaliatory strikes on American military facilities in the region. According to the New York Times, US forces were hit by Iranian missile and drone attacks several times over the past week, wounding dozens of troops and damaging several Black Hawk helicopters.
As both sides escalate strikes on civilian and military targets, the Pentagon is boosting the number of military aircraft in the Middle East, according to the Washington Post.
“The US is planning for a wider war,” an unnamed US official told the paper, while warning that the American military effort would be limited by dwindling air defense interceptor and missile supplies, which had been actively used up during the previous stages of the war.
“We do not have enough to safely sustain operations, and I don’t think the White House is aware of that,” the official told the Post. Military experts cited in the report said Washington remains unprepared for potential ground operations inside Iran–an option US President Donald Trump has refused to rule out.
On Friday, Axios reported that Washington had notified Israel that it was sending dozens of additional refueling planes ahead of a possible expansion of operations against Iran. According to the article, Trump was presented with several new military options, including strikes on Iranian power plants and further attacks on nuclear sites to bury Tehran’s stockpile of enriched uranium even deeper.
Saeid Golkar, an expert on Iran’s security services, told the Wall Street Journal that the situtation risks getting completely out of hand. “This escalation is rapidly intensifying and getting out of control,” he said. “There is a risk we will go back to a total war even if neither side wants it.”
A CNN analysis suggested that “a decisive US military victory over Iran seems a distant prospect.” In echoing remarks, Sina Toosi, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, warned that a ground operation “in extreme summer heat… against a fully mobilized military and a population that has largely rallied around the war effort, would be an extraordinary gamble practically guaranteed to be a historic disaster.”
Meanwhile, despite Trump’s assurances that the US had already crippled Iran’s war potential, several US media outlets reported that Washington is growing concerned about the Iranian military’s increasing effectiveness at penetrating American air defenses with missile strikes.
Asked by RT to comment on the potential expansion of the war, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said that “the responsibility… rests exclusively with the United States.” He went on to urge regional powers to “prevent the US from using their territory and facilities to attack” Iran, saying that Tehran’s retaliatory strikes were in self-defense.
The current escalation follows the collapse of a fragile ceasefire earlier this month due to the escalation in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump declared the truce “over,” calling Iran’s leaders “sick people” and threatening to reimpose a naval blockade of the waterway. Iran’s Foreign Ministry called the renewed US strikes a “gross violation” of the ceasefire memorandum, vowing its armed forces would defend the country’s territorial integrity and national security.
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