Pompeo threatens to light the fuse in Persian Gulf
(WorldNews Iran)

Sino-American economic decoupling will damage US energy sector The US Fifth Fleet announced last Friday that a carrier strike group led by USS Nimitz passed through the Strait of Hormuz with the guided-missile cruisers USS Princeton and USS Philippine Sea and guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett. After a gap of some 10 months, a US aircraft carrier is being deployed to the Persian Gulf. This news will fuel speculation that a military flare-up involving Iran is in the making. In an article on September 16, Trita Parsi, a well-known expert on Iran who heads the Washington-based think-tank Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, wrote that a “first direct clash may take place as early as...