U.S (Express Daily) – The U.S naval Commander in the Middle East informed to a news agency  on Thursday that American intelligence reports alarming about a  threat from Iran will not hinder him from sending an aircraft carrier through the vital Strait of Hormuz, if needed.

Vice Admiral Jim Malloy, commander of the U.S. Navy’s Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet, did not say whether he would send the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group into the strategic waterway off Iran, through which passes a fifth of oil consumed globally.

This group was firstly deployed by President Donald Trump to threaten Iran is now under the command of Malloy.

“If I need to bring it inside the strait, I will do so,” Malloy told in a telephonic conversation with an International News Agency. “I’m not restricted in any way, I’m not challenged in any way, to operate her anywhere in the Middle East.”

On the other front Iran has declared U.S intelligence reports baseless and fake. The reasons behind this current tense situation are a year s ago when U.S President Donald Trump withdrew from Iran nuclear deal and imposed economic sanctions again.

The Pentagon told that they have deployed Lincoln and sent bombers after a confirm intelligence reports base on the Iranian activities observed by Tehran.

“And that was certainly enough for me … to say that we saw this as a threat,” he said.