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A U.S. show of force appears to have been enough to get Iran to back down, after Tehran's naval forces repeatedly targeted ships in and around the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman earlier this year. The commander of U.S. Air Forces Central Command said Wednesday that the decision in July to send F-35 and F-16 fighter jets to the Persian Gulf, along with a naval destroyer and an amphibious assault group that included 2,500 U.S. Marines, seems to have resonated with Iranian officials. "The increased presence of surface vessels that went in ... combined with our airpower has deterr...