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US B-52 bomber again flies over Mideast amid Iran tensions
2021-01-28
[AlAhram] Biden has expressed a desire to return to the deal if Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
honors the deal's limits on its nuclear program

What limits? The whole point of the exercise was to make President Obama look good to his ignorant admirers while putting no constraints on Iran whatsoever.
The U.S. military said Wednesday it again flew a B-52 bomber over the Middle East ``to deter potential aggression'' amid tensions with Iran, the first such flight under President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'...
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The B-52 flew nonstop from Louisiana's Barksdale Air Force Base into the region earlier in the day. The plane went over both the Persian Gulf and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, according to flight-tracking data.

The U.S. military's Central Command later published images of the bomber flying alongside Royal Saudi Air Force F-15s.

While not mentioning Iran in its statement, Central Command said the flight was meant to ``showcase the U.S. commitment to regional security.''

The flights, the third-such operation this year, had become common in the last months of former President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
's administration. Trump's 2018 decision to unilaterally withdraw from Iran's nuclear deal with world powers sparked a series of escalating incidents in the region.

Biden has expressed a desire to return to the deal if Iran honors the deal's limits on its nuclear program.
Related:
B-52 : 2021-01-02 US to move aircraft carrier out of Mideast amid Iran tension
B-52 : 2020-12-30 B-52 bombers fly low over Persian Gulf in message to Iran
B-52 : 2020-10-19 The nuclear option: Fleet of B-52s - that carry the country's airborne nuclear deterrent - line the runway before taking off within minutes of each other in show of force
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