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<\/p>\nThe estimated 10,200 additional troops will join the 50,000 American personnel that the Pentagon has said are already involved in the Iran war<\/p>\n
The fragile ceasefire announced on April 7 is currently slated to expire next Tuesday(Image: AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
The Pentagon is reportedly shipping thousands of additional troops to the Middle East in the coming days despite a statement from President Donald Trump earlier this week that said the Iran war is “very close to being over.”<\/p>\n
About 6,000 service members will arrive in the region aboard the USS George H.W. Bush and a number of escort warships, with about 4,200 others Marine Corps members expected to follow near the end of the month, U.S. officials told The Washington Post. The troops’ arrival appears to align with the end of the fragile two-week ceasefire <\/a>on April 22, and serves as a source of mounting pressure on Iran as the Trump administration weighs the possibility of more strikes or ground operations.<\/p>\n “I think it\u2019s close to over, yeah,” Trump told FOX Business in an interview on “Mornings with Maria” this week. “I view it as very close<\/a> to being over.”<\/p>\n READ MORE: Judge gives Trump administration three weeks to turn over evidence from Renee Good’s killing<\/a>READ MORE: Judge tosses Trump’s $10B lawsuit over Epstein birthday book report<\/a><\/p>\n The continuing build up of troops in the Middle East has been characterized by White House officials and outside experts as a reserve measure for the chance that negotiations with Iran and the expiring ceasefire goes wrong, according<\/a> to the Post.<\/p>\n Asked about the growing military presence this week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Trump \u201chas wisely kept all options on the table in the event that the Iranians will not forgo their nuclear ambitions and make a deal that is acceptable to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cUnlike the Americans who are afraid of continuous war, we are fully prepared and familiar with a long war,\u201d an Iranian military adviser reportedly said(Image: US NAVY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n They will join the estimated 50,000 American personnel that the Pentagon has said are already involved in the Iran war.<\/p>\n The newly appointed military adviser to Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday said he does not support extending the two-week ceasefire, according to Iranian state media.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are subject to the decisions of the relevant officials, but personally I do not agree to extend the ceasefire,\u201d said Mohsen Rezaei, formerly a commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps who now advises Mojtaba Khamenei on military affairs, Iranian state media reported.<\/p>\n Rezaei also urged officials to be more cautious than they had been before in negotiations over economic matters with the U.S., The Associated Press reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n The newly appointed military adviser to Iran’s supreme leader reportedly said he does not support extending the two-week ceasefire(Image: DVIDS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n He said Iran was setting the preconditions in the next round of talks, not the U.S.<\/p>\n \u201cUnlike the Americans who are afraid of continuous war, we are fully prepared and familiar with a long war,\u201d he said, according to the report.<\/p>\n Leavitt meanwhile said the U.S. had not \u201cformally requested an extension of the ceasefire\u201d with Iran. The ceasefire announced on April 7 is currently slated to expire next Tuesday.<\/p>\n![\"\u201cUnlike](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0_TOPSHOT-US-ISRAEL-IRAN-WAR.jpg\")
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