The bombing campaign may last for several weeks, American officials have said.
The US will carry out a series of strikes on “Iranian personnel and facilities” in Iraq and Syria in response to a deadly attack on American troops in Jordan, CBS News reported on Thursday, citing anonymous officials. Tehran has vowed to strike back if its people or interests are threatened.
The officials did not state when the strikes would begin, but said US forces would likely wait for good weather in order to maximize accuracy. Sources told CBS the strikes would take place over several days, while NBC News quoted the same officials as saying that the campaign could last “weeks.”
American forces regularly engage in tit-for-tat strikes with Iran-aligned militia groups in Iraq and Syria, although the admission that the coming attacks could last for several weeks marks a significant escalation in the long-running conflict.
The news came after one of these groups killed three American troops and wounded dozens more in a drone attack on a US outpost in Jordan on Sunday. US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he had decided how to respond to the strike, without revealing further information.
Following Biden’s announcement, Kataib Hezbollah, the most powerful Iraqi militia group, announced it would suspend “military and security operations against the occupation forces [US troops] – in order to prevent embarrassment to the Iraqi government.” The Biden administration believed that the Islamic Resistance – an umbrella group of militias including Kataib Hezbollah – was behind the Jordan attack, although none of these militias has claimed responsibility.
By the time of Biden’s statement, the Islamic Resistance had struck US bases in the Middle East more than 150 times since the Israel-Hamas war began in October, in a campaign aimed at harming Israel’s most prominent backer.
Biden also told reporters that he holds Iran responsible for the three US troop deaths, “in the sense that they’re supplying the weapons to the people who did it.”
While Iran arms and trains numerous Islamic Resistance groups in Iraq and Syria, the Foreign Ministry in Tehran insisted on Monday that these fighters “do not take orders from the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Iran’s envoy to the UN, Amir Saeid Iravani, issued a warning to the US on Tuesday, stating: “The Islamic Republic will decisively respond to any attack on the county, its interests and nationals under any pretexts.”
Across the Middle East, US forces are facing potential conflict on multiple fronts. American ships and warplanes have traded missile strikes with Yemeni Houthi militants for almost two weeks, in a bid to break the Houthi blockade on “Israel-linked” shipping in the Red Sea. Elsewhere, US Air Force personnel in Iraq have been ordered to remain on standby in case of “on-ground US involvement in the Israel-Hamas war,” according to a Pentagon memo reported by The Intercept on Tuesday.
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Another attempt to start WWIII…..recklessness at its worst……
They’re desperate to. Their 2030 great reset deadline is fast approaching. Need to get those 4 horsemen up and running.
The scientists in their biolabs have got pestilence covered.
Frauline Ursula in the EU is sowing the seeds of food scarcity to create famine.
The boys in the pentagram… excuse me… pentagon are working hard to bring us war war and more war.
I’m reading the book of Revelations for spoilers at this point
The correct way would be to aid the Iranian people to form militias, arm themselves and fight the Mullah regime directly. The Iranian people hate the Mullahs and want their freedom. When the Mullah regime in Iran has gone then all the other Iranian proxies will naturally collapse.
In about 2014/15, there was a popular uprising in Iran and the peoples’ leaders asked President Obama directly for help, which he refused to give. A massive opportunity to help the people of Iran was rebuffed.
My “take” on this is that training the Iranian people to resist and supplying them with small arms and ammunition does not make enough money for the bankers and the Military-Industrial Complex. However, having carrier battle groups out there, fighter jets with guided missiles and guided bombs, cruise missiles from destroyers is very expensive and this is very good business for the bankers and the weapons manufacturers: Every guided weapon launched is a few hundred thousand dollars and then another needs to be manufactured to replace it, all funded by the taxpayer, of course.
Leave the iranian people in peace. We already saw how Ukraine was ” helped” by the USA. Or any country ” helped” by the USA for that matter. Nobody likes the USA. The USA incapable of constructing something positive with any body. The USA only capable of destruction of beautiful cultures, bombing anx thieving. The USA producing poison drug to kill as much as possible around the world.
The USA has enough deranged people among itself who care only about money and hates everybody. The world hates back the USA !!! USA go home !!