The risk of an expanded Iran war grew as Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis on Saturday launched their first attacks on Israel since the start of the conflict, as additional U.S. forces reached the Middle East.
Washington has dispatched thousands of Marines to the Middle East in the month-old war. The first of two contingents arrived on Friday on an amphibious assault ship, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
The Washington Post reported on Saturday that U.S. officials said the Pentagon was preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, possibly involving raids by Special Operations and conventional infantry troops.
Whether President Donald Trump would approve plans for deploying ground troops remained uncertain, the Post reported.
Reuters has reported the Pentagon was considering military operations that could include deploying ground troops in Iran.
The war, launched on February 28 with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, has spread across the Middle East, killing thousands and hitting the world economy with the biggest-ever disruption to global energy supplies.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday the U.S. could achieve its aims without ground troops but that it was deploying some to the region so Trump would have “maximum” flexibility to adjust strategy.
The Pentagon was also expected to deploy thousands of soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division.
Pakistan, a potential mediator between Washington and Tehran, is to host two days of talks from Sunday with the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt, seeking ways to ease regional tensions, a day after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian spoke to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
Source: Reuters
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