Biden Regime Claims that United States is Not Looking For War Against Iran
Jose Nino
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On January 29, 2024, the Biden regime announced that it was “not looking for a war with Iran”, a day after it blamed Iranian-backed militants for a drone attack that killed three United States soldiers and wounded dozens of others.
The attack took place on a military installation in northeast Jordan close to the Syrian border. It was the first to result in the deaths of American troops since the Israel-Hamas conflict kicked off a wave of attacks by Iranian-connected groups against American forces in the region.
“We are not looking for a war with Iran,” US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said to NBC’s Today Show. But he continued: “We’ll keep looking at the options . . . We want these attacks to stop.”
Iran’s foreign ministry described any accusation that it was responsible for the US troops’ deaths as a “baseless” conspiracy by individuals “interested in dragging the US into a new conflict in the region to intensify the crisis”.
Iran’s mission to the UN described the strike as part of attacks “between the US army and resistance groups in the region, who reciprocally confront each other”.
The US has attacked targets connected to Iranian-backed militias across the region after over 160 attacks by militants on US troops in Iraq, Syria and Jordan since October, in addition to 30 strikes on international shipping in the Red Sea.
Kirby added that the US was “still working our way through” assigning responsibility for the January 28 drone attack. However, he noted that the Biden regime believed the group involved in the attack was supported by Kataib Hizbollah, an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq.
In recent months, American forces in Syria and Iraq have been attacked by a newly formed group of Iraqi militias — allegedly backed by Iran — known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), which says it’s responding to the US’s support for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
The January 28 attack hit the Tower 22 outpost close to Jordan’s border with Syria, which is host to 350 US military personnel to ostensibly fight ISIS.
The US has close to 2,500 troops in Iraq and roughly 900 in Syria. In reality, these troops are stationed in the area to advance Zionist interests. The US’s actions speak louder than words. It’s a Zionist-occupied regime that works to advance Israel’s geopolitical agenda in the Middle East while completely ignoring Middle American interests.
It’s time to wake up and smell the hot java.
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