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Washington.- The Pentagon ordered this Tuesday the deployment of at least 2,000 paratroopers from the US Army in the Middle East, on the margins of the beginning of alleged negotiations between Washington and Tehran to try to put an end to the war in Iran, dialogues that Tehran has denied.
According to officials cited by various U.S. media outlets, the paratroopers who received the order come from the Airborne Division, which has the capacity to deploy to any point in the world within 18 hours.
The decision would be a move to offer "new possibilities for action" to US President Donald Trump, according to two officials cited by the Washington Post.
For its part, The New York Times asserted that the measure could be used to take the island of Kharg, Iran's main oil export center in the northern Persian Gulf, where the United States carried out a bombing last month without touching the oil infrastructure.
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As of yet, there is no clarity on the exact location to which the paratroopers will be mobilized. The Pentagon's decision is announced hours after Trump assured that, in the supposed first negotiations with Iran, the Islamic nation gave him a "great gift", without specifying what it is. Although Iran has denied the existence of direct negotiations with the United States, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Bagaei admitted to having received messages from "friendly countries" about the US request to negotiate. Iran's war enters its fourth week after the escalation initiated on February 28 with coordinated attacks by the United States and Israel on Iranian soil. In response, Iran has launched waves of missiles and drones against Israel and strategic targets in the Gulf, as well as keeping the Strait of Hormuz blocked, through which a fifth of the world's crude oil supply passes.
