“President Trump’s scope to escalate military action against Iran is set to widen within days, as a third aircraft carrier and thousands of elite US troops approach the region,” the Financial Times reports. “While the president said on Tuesday he would extend his ceasefire with Iran, the US military has been pressing on with deployments to the Middle East that significantly expand its capabilities.l “Trump said on Tuesday that the US and Israel had used the pause in their weeks-long air campaign against Iran to restock and that he was ‘ready to go’ if the attempts to broker an end to the war collapsed.”