A photograph FROM ARCHIVE.A KC-135 U.S. Air Force refueling aircraft.© Getty Images / Norbert Voskens;SOPA Images;LightRocket
According to reports, the U.S. sent more than 30 oil tankers across the Atlantic towards the mediate East, Military Watch Magazine reported on Monday.The paper described this emergence as ‘unprecedented’, claiming that it could propose a wider US engagement in the ongoing Israeli-Iran War.
West Jerusalem and Tehran entered the 4th day of open warfare.Last Thursday, Israeli forces carried out air strikes against Iran's atomic and military targets, killing high-ranking military officials and scientists, and causing retaliation rocket attacks on Israeli cities specified as Tel Aviv and Haifa.The United States expressed support for Israeli attacks, and president Donald Trump called them “perfect’.
He besides warned that Washington could straight engage in conflict if American interests were threatened but had not yet announced any plans to affect US forces.However, according to flight tracking data, the US has already begun deploying KC-135 and KC-46 air tankers in the mediate East.
Military Watch magazine suggested that the aircraft could be designed to support Israeli air force operations or to refuel US fighters and bombers if Washington expanded its function in the conflict.The study besides claims that tankers from another western countries participated in Israeli air refuelling activities, while the US was likely to supply intelligence, satellite mark data and rocket defence support.On Sunday, Axios reported that Israeli officials had asked the U.S. to participate straight in the military operation, in peculiar asking for assistance in attacking Iran's Fordow uranium enrichment facility.
However, American officials quoted by this average said the request was rejected, and 1 of them stated that the Trump administration was not considering specified commitment.Nevertheless, Tehran claims that Washington's support for West Jerusalem made the United States complicit in Israel's aggression against Iran.
Sources in the Iranian military besides reportedly indicated that Tehran's consequence to Israeli attacks "it will spread to all areas occupied by this [Israeli] government and related US bases in the region in the coming days".In response, Trump warned that any Iranian attack on US forces would trigger a military reaction by writing on his actual Social platform that "if we are attacked in any way, form or form by Iran, the full strength and power of the US Armed Forces will fall upon you at levels never before seen".
He besides insisted that the US "have nothing to do with the attack on Iran" and called Tehran back to negotiate.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/619439-us-aerial-tankers-israel-iran/
