{"id":425,"date":"2026-10-02T12:58:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2026-10-02T12:58:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:58:46","slug":"us-third-carrier-strike-group-iran-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"U.S. SENDS THIRD CARRIER AS TRUMP EYES POST-MIDTERM IRAN STRIKES! | Roosevelt + Makin Island sail with ~2,000 Marines \u2014 buildup due by November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon is stacking decks in the Persian Gulf theater \u2014 again. The U.S. is reportedly sending a <strong>third aircraft carrier strike group<\/strong> to the Middle East along with an amphibious force carrying about <strong>2,000 Marines<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/10\/02\/us-iran-war-trump-hormuz-.html\">CNBC<\/a> reported Friday, citing Al Jazeera and the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>USS Theodore Roosevelt<\/strong> group and the <strong>Makin Island<\/strong> amphibious force have left San Diego, a U.S. official told Al Jazeera. Separately, the Journal said the full buildup is expected to be complete by <strong>November<\/strong> \u2014 the same month President Donald Trump recently told aides he expects to <strong>resume bombing Iran<\/strong>, according to the paper.<\/p>\n<p>That is a force-posture move, not just Oval Office talk. The war is in its <strong>eighth month<\/strong> and stuck in a stalemate: indirect talks stalled after Washington rejected Iran\u2019s proposal to reopen Hormuz in exchange for lifting the U.S. blockade, keeping oil prices above pre-war levels.<\/p>\n<p>Pressure points keep flashing. The Saudi-led coalition accused Iran-backed Houthis of a drone strike on a Medina power station supplying the Prophet\u2019s Mosque (Houthis denied it). Treasury widened sanctions on Iran\u2019s auto and rail sectors. UKMTO said a tanker was hit by an unknown projectile in Hormuz on Thursday. And Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly ordered Iran\u2019s U.N. delegation to leave New York early after Qatari-mediated talks failed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/10\/02\/us-iran-war-trump-hormuz-.html\">CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roosevelt + Makin Island sail with ~2,000 Marines \u2014 buildup due by November<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-us-third-carrier-iran-1002.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}