The US aircraft carrier Lincoln has arrived in the Middle East

The United States Central Command (Centcom) announced that the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and accompanying warships have arrived in the Middle East.

"The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is currently deployed to the Middle East to promote regional security and stability," Centcom said. The decision to move the Abraham Lincoln to Middle Eastern waters aims to enhance US firepower and defensive capabilities in the region, giving President Donald Trump the ability to launch an attack on Iran.

"It is an understandable and inevitable reaction" in the face of the brutality of the regime's repression, which however carries with it the risk of a definitive halt to all channels of dialogue, not to mention the difficulty of following up a decision that affects "a structure of the State that pervades all the vital ganglia" of the Islamic Republic. Luca Giansanti, former ambassador to Tehran and former director general for Political Affairs at the Farnesina, thus comments with Adnkronos on the announcement by Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who on Thursday will propose to his EU colleagues that the Corps of the Guardians of the Revolution be blacklisted as a terrorist organisation.

"Two weeks after the Iranian regime's extremely harsh repression of citizens demonstrating - tens of thousands of people are reported dead - we are calling on the EU to include the Pasdaran in the list of terrorist organisations and to strengthen the protection of Iranian students living in our country". Thus the secretary of +Europa Riccardo Magi at a press conference organised at the Chamber of Deputies.