Navy cruise missile ships and sub in place to respond to Iran attacks

 Washington Examiner:

On Sunday, an Iran-supported militia launched rockets at the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq. No Americans were harmed, but an Iraqi soldier was wounded. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo quickly attributed the attack to Iranian-controlled militias. The top culprit is a somewhat deniable subset of the Kata'ib Hezbollah organization, Iran's primary military proxy in Iraq.

More interestingly, on Monday, a U.S. Navy cruise missile submarine, the USS Georgia, and two missile destroyers transited through the Strait of Hormuz into the Arabian Sea. The Navy's public announcement of the transit (the cover photo to this article is a Navy release of the transit) is noteworthy for two reasons.

First, the Pentagon's Central Command, responsible for Iran-related military operations, knows that the Iranian military command is aware that the USS Georgia poses a special threat to its interests. That's because the Georgia can now operate with effective impunity against Iran, especially if, as we now know it is, the submarine is operating in a quick alert patrol posture in the Arabian Sea. The tactical specifics matter here. Assuming that the Georgia is operating about 100 miles or more off the Iranian coast, it could rise to launch depth and fire its Tomahawk missiles at any land target across Iran. By the time Iran then scrambled any of its most responsive military assets, of which it has few, to the area where the Tomahawks were first detected on radar, assuming they were detected at all, the Georgia could be at least 100 miles away in any direction and depth. When one considers that the Georgia is equipped with updated Tomahawk missiles, capable of loitering after launch, the submarine poses a threat Iran simply cannot contest. The timing of this announcement matters. The Georgia would be far more vulnerable to Iran were it still operating in the shallow, tight waters of the Persian Gulf, which is why it only surfaced just before transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

It's a clear message to Tehran, and the Revolutionary Guard Corps in particular: Attack U.S. interests at your peril. And it follows a recent and very public training operation in which B-52 bombers flew from their U.S. bases to the Mediterranean Sea. The intent was to show the Pentagon's means of rapidly deploying strike assets in the event of a crisis.

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Iran may try to get a last shot in at US forces while Trump is in office in the hopes that Biden will not respond.  Trump has been extremely effective at dealing with Iran's terrorism.  Obama and Biden actually funded a good portion of Iran's military as part of their terrible deal on the nuclear issue.