Deploying USS Abraham Lincoln to vicinity of Iran, US National Security Adviser John Bolton says it came after 'a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings'

Defense official says Pentagon approved the deployments; US forces at sea and on land thought to be possible targets

Bolton announces US deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force; fierce warning of 'unrelenting force' to Iran

USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force sent to the region in response to troubling warnings and escalatory indications, says John Bolton

Tehran FM slams Washington for ‘supporting the biggest terrorist in our region, and that is Israel,’ says Islamic Republic rejects all efforts to blacklist Islamic movement

Foreign secretary says Tehran 'putting innocent people in prison and using it as leverage' for its purposes

Top diplomat says Trump wants to pressure Tehran into talks, but being 'lured into a trap' by 'the B Team' -- John Bolton, Bibi and bin Salman, who want 'disintegration of Iran'

Zarif claims Tehran has not received response from Trump administration 6 months after raising possibility

At New York event, Foreign Minister Zarif vows Tehran will continue selling oil to countries and using the Strait of Hormuz to transport it

Beijing lashes out at Trump administration decision to sanction Iranian oil buyers; India to go along with ban