The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, sent to the Middle East last month to stop Iran and Hezbollah from opening a second front against Israel, was positioned this week in the heart of the Persian Gulf, just 100 kilometers (62 miles). miles) away Iranian coast. The Eisenhower transited the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday and entered the Persian Gulf after departing from the United States last month and taking part in a major exercise with the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford in the eastern Mediterranean. From there it continued south through the Red Sea and through Bab al-Mandab off the coast of Yemen to the Arabian Sea. In a satellite image taken on Monday, November 27, the Eisenhower is seen 100 kilometers south of Iran, about 120 kilometers northeast of Qatar. The picture also showed a plane that was apparently about to land.