President Donald Trump has yet to give an official deployment order.
The US Department of War has reportedly instructed a second aircraft carrier strike group to prepare for possible deployment to the Middle East, as Washington intensifies military pressure on Tehran amid negotiations over its nuclear program, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Three US officials told the news outlet on Wednesday that the preparations are part of contingency plan for a potential strike on Iran if diplomatic efforts fail. US President Donald Trump has not yet issued a formal order, and officials have cautioned that plans could still change.
One official said the deployment order could come “in a matter of hours.” Another said that the Pentagon is readying a carrier for deployment within roughly two weeks, likely from the US East Coast. The USS George H.W. Bush is currently completing training exercises off the coast of Virginia and could accelerate those drills if ordered to move sooner, the report said.
If approved, the second carrier would join the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is already operating in the region as part of a broader US military buildup that includes additional warships, air defenses, and fighter squadrons.
Trump publicly acknowledged on Tuesday that he was considering sending another carrier to the region. “We have an armada that is heading there and another one might be going,” he said, adding that Washington would have to do “something very tough” if negotiations collapse.
The US president also met behind closed doors on Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House to discuss Iran.
“I insisted that negotiations with Iran continue to see whether or not a deal can be consummated,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after the meeting. “If it can, that will be a preference. If it cannot, we will just have to see what the outcome will be.”
The details of a potential second round of indirect US-Iran talks have yet to be finalized. Officials from both countries met in Oman last week in their first negotiations since last year’s Israeli and American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Iran has repeatedly insisted it will not entirely relinquish its right to enrich uranium and has ruled out talks on its ballistic missile program. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned that any renewed US attack would prompt retaliation against American bases across the Middle East.
The loss of four aircraft carriers at the Battle of Midway in WW2 signaled the end of Japanese naval power
The loss of an American aircraft carrier in the impending attack on Iran will signal the end of the American Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w30FkSXyTE
https://www.youtube.com/live/OJQoaivZNss?si=eCy3rsEl3WoQ2NCa
Pepe escobar/ napolitano
https://news-pravda.com/nato/2026/02/12/2072069.html
There is no negotiated settlement acceptable to the US albeit regime change
Everything else is smoke and mirrors
Uncle Sam is a war monger bad actor representing a failed rogue pariah state
That has reached the end of His tenure and over lordship
Maybe possibly could be?
Indefinite articles
Time will tell
Everything is on the table
Including nukes which Uncle SAM may need to extricate Himself but to no avail from the quagmire and minefield with disastrous impending consequences He is about to enter
As another commentator said its regime change the US imperialists and their smelly little genocidal pet want. The idiocy of all of this is it may force Iran’s hand and they will get nukes either by their own enrichment or from a sympathetic third party. At that point its game over for the US’s ambitions.
The Third parties (Russia and Pakistan…) have already provided Iran with nukes.
The Iranians are Persian Zoroastrians (Note-Zoroasterism preceded ‘Christianity’ by thousands of years,) and the Persians have never lost a war..!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-OwI-rTCeM
The Vatican (a ‘Church-State’) and it’s corrupt money-laundering Vatican Bank under the control of the P-2 Lodge is part and participle of the NWO, and has yet to demand Catholic Nations invade Israel to stop the Genocide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKjyNcbcaw0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvcl8pe53yU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04k7_Iz4Q2U
But the Persians were conquered when Darius 3rd lost to Alexander the Great – and that battle, although fought in Persia of that time, was located in what’s known today as Iraq. Perhaps what you meant was that the Persians haven’t lost a war within the geographical boundaries of today’s Iran.
Dr. Alberto Rivero was assassinated by the Jesuits….
and the spectators include Chinese intelligence https://news-pravda.com/nato/2026/02/12/2072069.html