The US military’s Central Command (Centcom), which oversees operations in the war on Iran, said the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group is “maintaining peak readiness” in the Arabian Sea, Al Jazeera reports.

In a post on social media, it shared images of US warplanes, including F-35 stealth fighter jets, launching from the deck of an aircraft carrier, saying that its forces remain ready while “enforcing the US blockade against Iranian ports”.