US deploys guided missile submarine to the West Asia region as Israeli regime is on high alert over Iran’s retaliatory attack.

The Pentagon confirmed late Sunday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had ordered the dispatch of the USS Georgia guided missile submarine to the region.

He further ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, equipped with F-35C fighter jets, to accelerate its ongoing transit to the area. The strike group will join the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt and its accompanying warships already deployed to the Gulf of Oman.

The US deployment was announced following talks between Austin and Israel's minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant.

Senior officials in Washington have time and again vowed to keep providing “ironclad” support for the Israeli regime as the latter presses on with its genocidal war on Gaza.

Tensions have risen across the region following the assassination of the head of the political bureau of the Hamas resistance movement, Ismail Haniyeh, in Iran last month. 

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the assassination of Haniyeh, in the Iranian capital Tehran, was designed and executed by Israel, with support from the US administration.

Haniyeh was assassinated on July 31, while he was in Tehran to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian.