Third US aircraft carrier arrives in Middle East amid Iran tensions: Report

The USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier arrived in the Middle East on Sunday, joining two other US carriers already operating in the region and taking the American naval presence to three carrier strike groups.The USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier arrived in the Middle East on Sunday. (AP)Axios reporter Barak Ravid shared the development on X, citing a US official.“The USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier has arrived in the U.S. military central command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility earlier on Sunday, a U.S. official tells me . The U.S. military now has three air craft carrier strike groups in CENTCOM”The deployment comes amid heightened tensions with Iran, which claimed over the weekend that it had struck US assets in Bahrain. The announcement followed another claim by Tehran on Friday that it had targeted a US early-warning radar system at the same location.However, the US military rejected the allegation of damage to the radar installation, saying it had intercepted two Iranian drones heading towards Bahrain.The Pentagon and US Central Command (CENTCOM), responsible for overseeing American military operations in the Middle East, have yet to officially confirm the carrier’s deployment timeline.This story is being updated.