WASHINGTON,
April 2 (Xinhua) -- The White House renewed on Monday its denial of increasing
rhetoric that the United States is preparing for war against Iran.
"We reject any notion that suggests that we are
ratcheting up the language in terms of trying to prepare to go to war with Iran.
That is certainly not the case," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said at a
news briefing.
The reiteration by the White House occurred at the
time when U.S. aircraft carrier Nimitz and its support ships are leaving for the
Persian Gulf to join another aircraft carrier strike group already in that
region.
Last week, Perino said the United States is not
escalating tensions with Iran and insisted that its naval exercises in the Gulf
has been long planned.
The nuclear-powered USS Nimitz will sail Monday to
support U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Navy said, amid
a spike in tensions over Iran's seizure of 15 British marines and sailors.
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WASHINGTON, March 30 (Xinhua) -- U.S. aircraft carrier
Nimitz and its support ships will depart United States next Monday for the
Persian Gulf to join another aircraft carrier strike group already in that
region, the Pentagon said Friday.
The nuclear-powered carrier will join the John C.
Stennis Strike Group and relieve carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower, according to a
news release from the Pentagon.
The Pentagon said that the two-carrier presence in
the Persian Gulf is intended to demonstrate the country's "resolve to build
regional security and bring long-term stability to the region." Full story
WASHINGTON, March 29 (Xinhua) -- The United States is not
seeking confrontation with Iran and believes diplomacy is the way to proceed,
U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said Thursday.
"We're convinced diplomacy is the way to proceed. We
are most definitely on a diplomatic track. We do not believe that conflict with
Iran is inevitable. We need to be patient and persistent," Burns said while
testifying at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Although the United States has dispatched two
aircraft carriers to the Gulf region, "they are not there to provoke any kind of
conflict with Iran," Burns said. Full story
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