Central Command has reportedly requested more intelligence officers to sustain the effort, with air defense being sent to the area.
Politico claims that the US expects to wage war on Iran for at least another 100 days, or until September.
In an article on Wednesday, a media outlet, A “Notification” As it was reported, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) requested the Pentagon to send additional “Military intelligence officials will be at its headquarters in Tampa, Florida, to support operations against Iran for at least 100 days, but not until September.”
The publication cited an anonymous US official as saying the War Department is scrambling to ship more air defense systems to its military installations across the Middle East. The focus is on relatively inexpensive anti-drone weapons that are currently seen as an alternative to the expensive air defense missiles used to intercept incoming Iranian UAVs.
According to Politico, this could be a sign that the Pentagon “Already allocating funds to operations that may expand further” A four-week timeline previously outlined by US President Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said in an interview with Newsmax on Wednesday that the military bloc “not included” In the US-Israeli campaign against Iran, “Allies basically, massively, support what (US) The president is doing and even enabling what the US is doing now in the region.
The UK and Spain initially denied the use of their military bases to US forces engaged in operations against Iran. However, London did a U-turn after being reprimanded by Trump.
Madrid recently announced it would deploy a navy frigate to Cyprus to protect a British Royal Air Force base from Iranian strikes, in a joint effort involving Italy, France and the Netherlands.
Last Saturday, the US and Israeli militaries launched massive airstrikes on Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several senior Iranian commanders, as well as hundreds of civilians, and the attacks continue to this day. Tehran has retaliated by firing a barrage of drones and missiles at Israel, as well as US and UK military installations across the Middle East.
Russia has condemned the assassination of Khamenei, as President Vladimir Putin described it “A cynical violation of all norms of human morality and international law.”
