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More US Marines arrive in Gulf region
Updated March 28, 2026 – 8:50 p.mReading time: 49 minutes
The US landing craft “Tripoli” reaches the combat area. Israel’s army continues to attack Iranian weapons factories. All developments in the news blog.
According to a spokesman, the Israeli military wants to have largely destroyed Iranian weapons production “in a few days.” During this period, the armed forces would “complete the attacks on all important components of the (Iranian) military industry,” army spokesman Effie Defrin told journalists in the evening (local time).
“That means we will have to destroy most of the military production capacity,” he added. “It will take the regime a long time to restore them.” The Israeli Air Force has been flying intensive strikes against Iranian military industrial targets since the start of the Iran war four weeks ago. According to the Times of Israel, the Israeli military assumes that it has already attacked around 90 percent of the key facilities in the Iranian weapons industry.
Israeli warplanes also bombed military production facilities in Iran on Saturday night. According to the army, the headquarters of the Organization of Marine Industries was also hit. The institution is responsible, among other things, for the development and construction of warships and submarines.
More US naval forces have arrived in the Middle East. According to the US regional command Centcom, which is primarily responsible for the Middle East, the amphibious assault ship “USS Tripoli” reached its area of operations on Friday. It serves as the flagship of a combined naval force with approximately 3,500 personnel.
The US has already deployed thousands of Marines to the Middle East. According to previous US figures, there are more than 50,000 soldiers in the region.
Israel and the United States attacked Iran four weeks ago, which retaliated with counterattacks in the region. Since the start of the war, more than 11,000 targets have been hit by US forces, according to Centcom data on Saturday. More than 150 Iranian ships were either destroyed or damaged.
