FRANCE 24 English Why the threat of bombing campaign? Trump’s Iran gambit • FRANCE 24 English

Forget the capture of Maduro in Caracas and those zero U.S. casualties.Iran’s not Venezuela. The Pentagon knows it, deploying a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East along with a fleet of ships, aircraft and support to take on a weakened regime, but still a nation of 90 million that boasts a huge military with a homegrown arsenal of missiles and drones. Is the US prepared for all eventualities, particularly around the Strait of Hormuz, passageway for one-fifth of the planet’s oil and gas.
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