Sunday, 03 January 2021_The US defense chief has abruptly recalled home its Nimitz aircraft carrier from the West Asia amid opposition by top military advisers, marking a reversal of a major show-of-force strategy aimed at deterring Iran from taking retaliatory action for the US terror assassination of its top commander Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani along with several other senior Iranian and Iraqi military officers early last year in Baghdad.
Acting US Defense Secretary Christopher Millersuggested that the move was part of a “de-escalatory” signal to Iran in efforts to avert stumbling into a crisis in the final days of Donald Trump’s presidency, The New York Times reported Friday, citing military officials, further pointing to “American intelligence reports” claiming that Iran and its allies may be preparing to attack US targets “as early as this weekend” – marking the anniversary of the terror assassination -- to avenge Gen. Soleimani’s loss.
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