US to send 3,500 troops to Middle East after killing Iranian general

The government of the United States will send more 3,500 troops to the Middle East this last weekend, after the attack that killed the Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards of Iran , said the American newspaper The Washington Post . The initiative tendsThe Pentagon also confirmed on Thursday that it was responsible for the drone attack on a convoy carrying Soleimani near Baghdad airport. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo justified the action on the grounds that the Iranian general had plans to attack US officials in Iraq and other countries in the region. According to Pompeo, the United States intends to ease tension with the Persian Gulf country. But if there is retaliation, the country is prepared to react. to carry the degree of tension in Iraq, the terrain of a potential armed conflict between the United States and Iran.

The decision, not yet officially announced, was made after Iran said it would avenge the death of Soleimani, one of Iran's most powerful figures and treated as a hero in the country. He was killed last Thursday after a drone bombed his vehicle at Baghdad, Iraq's capital.

The White House had already ordered 750 troops to be sent to the Middle East this week. The reinforcement was a response to the invasion of the US embassy in the capital of Iraq by members of the PMF, Iran's allied Shiite group, one of the episodes of the new crisis in the region.

Soleimani's assassination has alerted US allies in the region, raised fears of a new war in the Middle East and sparked oil barrel prices. At around 4:28 pm EDT, the price of Brent oil, traded on the international market, rose 3.64%, selling at $ 68.64.