Donald Trump okays deployment of US forces to Saudi and UAE

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ United States President Donald Trump has approved the deployment of US forces to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.”The President has approved the deployment of US forces which will be defensive in nature and primarily focused on air and missile defence,” US Defence Secretary Mark Esper was quoted as saying on Friday evening (local time) by Sputnik.

The US Defence Secretary noted that the US doesn’t seek war with Iran, but ‘has other options’ as well. He said that a ‘layered defence’ could better protect the kingdom in the event of being ‘swarmed’ by drones or missiles, but noted that no system can prevent all such attacks.

The move comes in response to findings by the US and Saudi intelligence that last weekend’s attack on two Saudi Aramco oil facilities in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province did not come from Yemen, as that country’s Houthi movement claimed, but was launched from Iran.