THE US has sent B-52 bombers to fly over the center East in a clear warning to Iran, as Washington and Tehran's tensions still overboil.

A pair of the bombers flew over the region on Sunday, marking the newest military demonstration from the US to Iran since President Joe Biden took office. The US military’s Central Command said the 2 B-52s were amid aircraft from Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other nations.

In a statement, Central Command said the flights were to “deter aggression and reassure partners and allies of the US military’s commitment to security within the region.”

Flight-tracking data showed the B-52s flew out of Minot air station in North Dakota, which Central Command didn't mention.

It marked the fourth fly-over into the center East this year, and therefore the second under the Biden administration.

Fly-overs with US bombers were commonplace under former President Donald Trump’s final few months in office.

Last year, United States Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr, commander people Central Command, said Iran poses the best threat to regional security and stability.

In a June webinar, he said: “Iran actively stokes instability and is bent degrading security everywhere the region.


"They use proxies and violence to push other nations within the region to their agenda."

It also follows Mr Biden authorising an airstrike on an Iranian-backed militia last month in Syria, in response to recent attacks on US and coalition personnel in Iraq.

The Pentagon confirmed a minimum of one person died within the attack, which also destroyed nine structures, but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed 22 people were killed.

Mr Biden told reporters the message he wanted to send to Iran was: “You can’t act with impunity. take care .”

An administration official claimed Mr Biden’s office contacted Iran following the attack.

Later reports suggested the US President called off a second strike just half-hour before it had been administered after he received an urgent warning from an aide civilians were within the area.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh blasted the US strikes, calling them “illegal aggression”.

The Syrian Foreign Ministry condemned the move during a statement, and said: “Syria condemns within the strongest terms the cowardly US attack on areas in Deir al-Zor near the Syrian-Iraqi border.

“It (the Biden administration) is meant to stay to international legitimacy, to not the law of the jungle as (did) the previous administration.”