Iran-US Tensions LIVE: With Donald Trump pressing Tehran to strike a nuclear deal, Iran’s atomic energy chief Mohammad Eslami said on Thursday that no country can strip the Islamic Republic of its right to nuclear enrichment.

The Pentagon has dramatically reduced the number of ships it had in the Caribbean ahead of the Maduro raid, moving vessels toward the Middle East.

The Pentagon is sending a second aircraft carrier group – the USS Gerald Ford – to the Middle East, according to a senior administration official and a source familiar with the matter, a move that puts pressure on Iran even as President Donald Trump has said talks with Tehran will continue.

The EPC deal involves work on the Margham gas storage and processing facility in the UAE, which forms part of the wider Sunrise Development Programme

The United States has moved more than 50 fighter jets to the Middle East and ordered a second aircraft carrier strike group to the region, according to reporting by The Washington Post. The deployments come as nuclear talks in Geneva,

This post has been updated to include details of the 2020 Nimitz Strike Group deployment. Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), its escorts and embarked Carrier Air Wing 8 have been tasked from their current position in the Caribbean to the Middle East to support a U.

The situation has escalated after nuclear talks between the United States and Iran. Russia has joined Iranian military exercises, while reports in the US suggest preparations for possible attacks.