An overview of the US military's Middle Eastern facilities.
ABC News Online: Iran is surrounded by US military bases and facilities. Here's a snapshot
Tensions between Iran and the United States have simmered for decades since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but in recent weeks their longstanding tensions appear to be boiling over.
This week, Tehran launched attacks against two large airbases hosting US and coalition forces in neighbouring Iraq, in retaliation for the US's unilateral assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leaders last week.
Soleimani was revered in Iran, whom the US claimed was plotting "imminent attacks" against its personnel in the Middle East as the reason for the killing, without specifying what they were.
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WNU Editor: It is not only the bases that are present in the Middle East that are formidable, but it is also the military power that the U.S. can project from the US itself that should give the Iranians pause.
