Former Nato commander Admiral James Stavridis described the recent US military buildup near Iran as “Dante’s Inferno.” The heavy American presence comes amid President Donald Trump’s fury toward Tehran’s Khamenei regime and escalating tensions between the two nations. Speaking to CNN, Stavridis said, “It's like 1990 Persian Gulf War I. This is a huge amount of US firepower. And let's kind of do it from the outside in, if you will, and concentric rings descending like Dante's inferno.”
He described the layered military structure. “On the outer rings are big strategic bombers. They can come all the way from the United States. They can operate from other bases but at a distance,” he said. Moving further inward, the admiral pointed towards “two aircraft carriers… It's in the northern part of the Indian Ocean. The other one is going to park right against Israel,” he said, adding that this creates “two axes.”
