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US to move aircraft carrier out of Mideast amid Iran tension

by Robert Burns
| December 31, 2020 11:06 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has decided to send home the only Navy aircraft carrier operating in the Middle East, a move that will reduce American firepower in the region amid heightened tensions with Iran.

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