Statement from the
National Security Advisor Ambassador John Bolton
Issued on: May 5, 2019
In response to a number
of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings, the United States is
deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force
to the U.S. Central Command region to send a clear and unmistakable message to
the Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or on those of
our allies will be met with unrelenting force. The United States is not
seeking war with the Iranian regime, but we are fully prepared to respond to
any attack, whether by proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or regular
Iranian forces.
