By Casey Harper (The Center Square)
The Pentagon released a statement late Thursday saying the U.S. military had struck two sites in Eastern Syria known to house Iranian-linked forces.
Those strikes come after a series of attacks on U.S. troops in the region from forces linked to Iran.
“Today, at President Biden’s direction, U.S. military forces conducted self-defense strikes on two facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated groups,” the Pentagon said in a statement. “These precision self-defense strikes are a response to a series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militia groups that began on October 17.”
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President Joe Biden directed the attacks, according to the Pentagon, “to make clear that the United States will not tolerate such attacks and will defend itself, its personnel, and its interests.”
The Pentagon said a U.S. citizen contractor died from a “cardiac incident” while sheltering from those attacks. In addition, 21 U.S. personnel received minor injuries but are back on duty.
“The United States does not seek conflict and has no intention nor desire to engage in further hostilities, but these Iranian-backed attacks against U.S. forces are unacceptable and must stop,” the Pentagon said. “Iran wants to hide its hand and deny its role in these attacks against our forces. We will not let them. If attacks by Iran’s proxies against U.S. forces continue, we will not hesitate to take further necessary measures to protect our people.”
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The statement went on to say this incident is separate from the Israel and Hamas war and that the U.S. does not desire a broader regional conflict.
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Hosein Kanani Moghadm, political analyst, said that in his meeting with Bashar al-Assad before the unrest break-out in Syria, Assad had said that the US diplomats had demanded that Syria cut relations with Iran and stops its anti-Israeli policies, “otherwise, the US may deal with Syria in severe terms.”
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“In addition, we have learned that on August 13-14, 2013, Western-sponsored opposition forces in Turkey started advance preparations for a major, irregular military surge,” the analysts said.
“Initial meetings between senior opposition military commanders and Qatari, Turkish and U.S. intelligence officials took place at the converted Turkish military garrison in Antakya, Hatay Province, now used as the command center and headquarters of the Free Syrian Army and their foreign sponsors.”
The analysts claimed that senior opposition commanders who came from Istanbul pre-briefed the regional commanders on an “imminent escalation in the fighting due to ‘a war-changing development,’ which, in turn, would lead to a U.S.-led bombing of Syria.”
The analysts said that the opposition leaders then were ordered to prepare their forces to “exploit the U.S. bombing” and march into Damascus to remove the al-Assad government.
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Michael Ledeen opined, “The only way we are going to win this war
is to bring down those regimes in Tehran and Damascus and they are not going to fall as a result of fighting between their terrorist proxies in Gaza and Lebanon on the one hand, and Israel on the other. Only the United States can accomplish it.”
Michael Ledeen
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Same old, same old.
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US representatives told the Taliban, ‘either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs’,”
Brisard said in an interview in Paris.
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Well how did that turn out for you?