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US Sends Third Carrier Toward Iran as Flydubai Probe Deepens; Salam Visits Nabatieh (Oct 02, 1056 UTC, 1356 Israel) (Evening Edition)
The United States is moving a third aircraft carrier toward Iran and has deployed additional Patriot batteries to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, while the Flydubai hijacking investigation widens with the arrest of a British-Iranian suspect in the UK. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam visited Nabatieh pledging reconstruction and Israeli withdrawal, as Israeli strikes continued in Gaza and southern Lebanon.