US B1-B Bomber Flies Over Mideast With Israeli & Saudi Escorts In Warning To Iran Over the weekend the US flew a B-1B strategic long-range bomber over the Middle East, and specifically over the Strait of Hormuz near Iran, in what the US Air Force called a "presence patrol" to send a message to Tehran. The Air Force revealed details and photos of the provocative fly-over on Sunday. Importantly at various points along the route, which went from the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to Yemen and then through Israel and Jordan and then over the Persian...