Iran disputes any role in strike that claimed US military troops

Iran has refuted claims of carrying out a drone strike on a US base near Jordan’s border with Syria, which resulted in the deaths of three American soldiers.

The US said that “extreme Iranian-supported militant groups” were responsible for the attack that hurt many people.

The US President Joe Biden promised to get back at the people who did something bad and said, “We will take action. ”

This is the first time that US soldiers have been killed in the area since the war in Gaza started because of Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7th.

Other US bases in the area have been attacked before, but no one had died until Sunday, as per the US military.

The group called the Islamic Resistance in Iraq says they were responsible for the attack.

The umbrella group started in late 2023 and is made up of a few Iran-related armed groups working in Iraq. It said it did other attacks on US soldiers recently.

The group said it attacked three US bases in Syria and Jordan: Shaddadi, Rukban, and Tanf, and an Israeli oil facility in the Mediterranean.

The Iraqi government has criticized the attack and asked for the violence in the Middle East to stop.

Bassem al-Awadi, a spokesperson for the government of Iraq, said they are open to working together to make basic rules to stop more problems in the area and lessen fighting.

Mr Biden said the US will make sure that anyone who is responsible will be held accountable, in a way and time that we decide.

Iran said it did not support the militant groups accused of the strike, despite what the US and Britain said.

Nasser Kanaani, a spokesperson for Iran’s foreign ministry, said that Iran doesn’t make the decisions for groups that fight for Palestinians or their own countries.

The White House told Mr. Biden about the attack on Sunday morning. The news was given by US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and other officials.

MrBiden said that Jill and I are sad with the families and friends of our fallen soldiers and all Americans for the loss of these warriors in a terrible and completely unfair attack.

Officials are still telling the families of the servicemen who were hurt or killed, so we don’t know their names yet.

During a trip to South Carolina, Mr. Biden said that things were difficult in the Middle East the previous night. “We lost three brave people. ”

US officials said that 34 soldiers are being checked for possible brain injuries. Some of them were taken to a hospital for more treatment.

They also said that the drone hit the place where people live at the base. If this is true, it could explain why so many people were hurt.

US Central Command and President Biden stated that the attack happened on a base in Rukban, northeastern Jordan, close to the border with Syria. US officials later called it Tower 22.

In December, people in charge of the United States said that military bases in Iraq and Syria were attacked 97 times since October 17th.

In the past month, the US did attacks on groups connected to Iran after three US soldiers got hurt, one very badly, in a drone attack on a base in northern Iraq.

In January, a US attack in Baghdad killed a militia leader who was accused of attacking American soldiers.

During an interview on ABC News that was shown on Sunday, Gen CQ Brown, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that America’s goal in the region is to prevent the conflict from getting worse.

“We want to stop them from causing trouble, and we don’t want the situation to become even more serious and lead to a bigger fight in the area. ”

American and other allied soldiers are now in the Red Sea because the Houthis, who are supported by Iran, have been attacking ships there. The group from Yemen is attacking ships in the area to help Palestinians in Gaza, where Israel is fighting against Hamas.

The US military said that these wrong actions are not related to the fighting in Gaza.

“The Houthis have shot at the Red Sea without caring who they hit, affecting over 40 countries’ ships,” according to US Central Command.

Two Navy Seals are believed to have died after they disappeared in January while on a mission near Somalia to take Iranian weapons headed for Houthis in Yemen.