Although their presence over there is not a secret (since it was announced about 10 years ago and you can see some by simply pointing Google Earth on Djibouti International Airport, as done in this interesting OSGEOINT analysis) what’s still unclear is what eight U.S. F-15Es are currently doing in the Horn of Africa.
They are reportedly serving in support of Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa, as an Expeditionary Squadron of the 380th Expeditionary Operations Group, based at Al Dhafra, in the United Arab Emirates, and responsible for the “war on terror” in the region, but what’s their actual mission remains a (sort-of) mystery.
Even if the American military presence across the world is usually very well advertised, the U.S. keep a low profile on the operations launched by the Air Force’s Strike Eagles from Eastern Africa.
The reason for such prudence maybe that, along with the Reaper drones, even the F-15Es are conducting air strikes in Yemen (and Somalia).
This is a blatant attempt to reverse the Iranian revolution of 19798 and re-impose the rule of the US Puppet Shahs on Iran. The good news is that this was already attempted in late 2010 with the attempted repeat of the CIA's 1953 overthrow of Iran's elected government. This plot to re-steal Iran cratered when the Iranian people realized that the flags being handed out from those vans to wave at the TV cameras were actually the flag of the Shah. Then as now the son of the Shah was strutting around dreaming of being a potentate. However, even after 30 years, the Iranian people remember what life was really like under US domination and they have no desire to return to it, either in 2010 or today.